Recaps

Xiao Yu bought Medusa a pair of shoes, then continued with her and Zi Yan toward the Pill Region. In Tianzhen City, they found the space wormhole unavailable while the Qiu and Ou families competed for its management rights.

• Medusa chose crimson shoes with gold trim, and the proprietress mistakenly called her Xiao Yu’s wife, provoking a terrifying outburst of aura.
• Xiao Yu calmed Medusa, bought all three pairs of shoes, and paid the frightened proprietress with pills.
• Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan stayed at an inn, then traveled by space wormhole for five days to Tianzhen City.
• Xiao Yu brought his companions to Blackstone Square, where a passerby explained that the Qiu and Ou families were competing over management of the space wormhole to the Pill Region.
• The passerby estimated that the competition would end in about two hours.

Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan attended a fighting tournament in Tianzhen City, where Feng Qing'er of the Wind Lightning Pavilion stopped them after spotting Zi Yan. Feng Qing'er attacked Zi Yan and, after Zi Yan tore apart her weapon, concluded that she belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Xiao Yu agreed to take Zi Yan and Medusa to watch the fights, and the three pushed through the crowd to the front of the square.
• Feng Qing'er watched the final match with four elders before the tournament ended and the crowd began leaving.
• Feng Qing'er spotted Zi Yan and ordered the elders to surround Xiao Yu's group so she could speak with them.
• Xiao Yu asked Feng Qing'er to let them pass, but she ignored him and launched a strip of colored silk at Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan caught and tore the silk, sending Feng Qing'er stumbling, and Feng Qing'er accused her of being from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Feng Qing'er ordered four mid-rank Dou Zongs to attack Zi Yan, but Medusa and Zi Yan overpowered them while Xiao Yu confronted Feng Qing'er. Medusa nearly killed Feng Qing'er with an arrow, but Feng Qing'er used her secret techniques to escape through a spatial rift, leaving the square in ruins.

• Feng Qing'er recognized Zi Yan as an Ancient Void Dragon and ordered the four old men to kill her.
• Medusa knocked the Qiu Family ancestor away and severed a Wind Lightning Pavilion elder’s arm, while Zi Yan fought the two remaining Dou Zongs.
• Feng Qing'er threatened Xiao Yu and Medusa with the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s power, but Medusa drew an energy bow and aimed at her.
• Feng Qing'er raised her cultivation with Bloodline Spirit Devour and transformed into the Demon Phoenix Bell to block Medusa’s arrow.
• After the arrow shattered the bell, Feng Qing'er used Blood Sacrifice and Phoenix Wings Rend the Sky to escape through a spatial rift.

After escaping Blackstone Square, Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan traveled to the Pill Region to avoid retaliation from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. They arrived in the Central Region and set out for Sacred Pill City so Xiao Yu could take the eighth-tier Alchemist assessment.

• Xiao Yu led Medusa and Zi Yan through the intact space wormhole after deciding they could not remain near Blackstone Square.
• The three arrived at the Central Region’s space-wormhole platform, where Xiao Yu bought an information booklet from a middle-aged merchant.
• Zi Yan asked when they would visit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Xiao Yu said they needed to grow stronger and investigate carefully first.
• Xiao Yu found that the eighth-tier Alchemist assessment was only available at the Pill Tower Headquarters in Sacred Pill City.
• Medusa agreed to accompany Xiao Yu, and the three left to find a city with a space wormhole leading to Sacred Pill City.

Xiao Yu reached Sacred Pill City and went to a Pill Tower branch to seek an eighth-tier Alchemist Badge, only to learn that its local assessments stopped at the fifth tier. After taking the fifth-tier assessment, he asked to continue testing for a higher rank, surprising the chief examiner.

• Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan arrived at Sacred Pill City, found an inn, and rested after their long journey.
• Xiao Yu went to a Pill Tower branch the next morning and joined the queue for an alchemist rank assessment.
• The chief examiner told Xiao Yu that the branch’s highest assessment was fifth-tier, so Xiao Yu requested that assessment.
• After leaving the assessment room, Xiao Yu asked to continue with a higher-tier assessment, startling the chief examiner.

After passing the fifth-grade assessment in under fifteen minutes, Xiao Yu sought a higher alchemist rank at the Pill Tower. When he asked about the eighth-tier assessment, Cao Yang and Elder Chen were stunned.

• Xiao Yu revealed that he had passed the fifth-grade assessment and asked Cao Yang where he could test for a higher rank.
• Cao Yang introduced himself and led Xiao Yu to a special testing room to take the seventh-grade assessment.
• Cao Yang told Elder Chen that Xiao Yu had completed the fifth-grade assessment in less than fifteen minutes, astonishing him.
• Elder Chen said he could assess Xiao Yu up to low-level seventh grade, while Xiao Yu appeared dissatisfied with the limit.
• Xiao Yu asked what requirements he needed to meet for an eighth-tier assessment, and Cao Yang and Elder Chen exclaimed in shock.

Xiao Yu proved that he possessed powerful Soul Power after Chen Qi and Cao Yang doubted his claim to be an eighth-tier Alchemist. President Tian Leizi arrived, offered to arrange the assessment himself, and agreed to hold it that day.

• Chen Qi refused to conduct an eighth-tier assessment for Xiao Yu, and Cao Yang grew wary of him.
• Xiao Yu released his spirit realm Soul Power to prove he was serious, startling Chen Qi and Cao Yang.
• Chen Qi apologized and explained that Xiao Yu would need to be assessed in the Inner Region after a report to the Pill Tower.
• Tian Leizi sensed Xiao Yu's Soul Power and appeared at the branch tower.
• Tian Leizi offered to personally arrange Xiao Yu's eighth-tier Alchemist assessment and said it would take place that day.

Xiao Yu began the Pill Tower’s eighth-tier alchemist assessment by studying the Myriad Beasts Dragon-Trapping Pill formula and preparing to refine it. He started extracting the medicinal ingredients with his Myriad Transformation Cauldron and Golden Light Dao Flame while Tian Leizi and the other alchemists watched.

• Tian Leizi explained that the Pill Tower supplied assessment formulas and ingredients, but candidates had to pay for them if they failed.
• Tian Leizi gave Xiao Yu the Myriad Beasts Dragon-Trapping Pill formula and several hundred medicinal ingredients, allowing him a day to study before the assessment.
• Xiao Yu memorized and reviewed the formula, then kept the copied scroll when Tian Leizi offered it to him.
• Xiao Yu summoned his Myriad Transformation Cauldron and began refining the pill, using his Golden Light Dao Flame to extract the ingredients’ essence.
• Chen Qi and Cao Yang recognized Xiao Yu’s flames as heavenly flames, while Tian Leizi wondered at their nature and Xiao Yu’s powerful Spirit Realm soul.

Xiao Yu refined the Myriad Beasts Dragon-Trapping Pill and endured the resulting two-colored pill lightning. As the lightning coursed through his body, he used it to temper his blood and reveled in the pain.

• Xiao Yu refined the medicinal ingredients while Cao Yang, Chen Qi, and Tian Leizi watched and admired his skill.
• Xiao Yu concealed the pill-fusion process with the Myriad Transformation Flame and completed the eighth-tier pill after several days.
• Xiao Yu caught the golden Myriad Beasts Dragon-Trapping Pill and judged that it could greatly strengthen Dou Qi cultivators.
• Xiao Yu faced the two-colored pill lightning, and Tian Leizi watched, ready to intervene if needed.
• Xiao Yu absorbed the lightning into his blood, which boiled and released blood mist as he exclaimed that the pain felt good.

Xiao Yu withstood the pill lightning, passed the eighth-tier alchemist assessment, and entered Sacred Pill City's Inner Region with Tian Leizi. He left Medusa and Zi Yan to wait while he went with Tian Leizi to the Pill Tower to receive his customized Alchemist Badge.

• Xiao Yu tempered his body with the pill lightning, reaching the peak of nine-star Dou Zong and strengthening his physical body to rival a late three-star Dou Zun.
• Tian Leizi confirmed Xiao Yu had passed the assessment and explained that he would need to visit the Pill Tower to have an eighth-tier Alchemist Badge made to his specifications.
• Xiao Yu asked permission to bring his two friends into the Inner Region, and Tian Leizi agreed.
• Xiao Yu brought Medusa and Zi Yan into the Inner Region with Tian Leizi, who explained its herb grounds and the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yu left Medusa and Zi Yan to wait in the Inner Region and flew with Tian Leizi toward the Pill Tower.

Xiao Yu received his eighth-tier Alchemist Badge and joined the Pill Tower as an elder after Tian Leizi assured him that membership would not restrict his freedom. He then bought medicinal ingredients for Zi Yan and prepared to take her and Medusa to their new residence.

• Tian Leizi presented Xiao Yu with a specially crafted eighth-tier Alchemist Badge and invited him to join the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yu agreed to join after Tian Leizi promised the Pill Tower would not control his actions, and Tian Leizi made him an elder.
• Tian Leizi gave Xiao Yu an elder's token with privileges throughout the Pill Region.
• Xiao Yu found Medusa and Zi Yan at a medicinal ingredient shop, where Zi Yan eagerly urged him to buy ingredients.
• Xiao Yu bought a large quantity of medicinal ingredients, spending most of the pills he had brought from the Northwest.
• Xiao Yu told Medusa and Zi Yan he would take them to the residence Tian Leizi had arranged for him.

After two months of pill refining, Xiao Yu took Zi Yan and Medusa to the Wind-Thunder Mountain Range to explore the ruins of Wind Thunder Battle Venerable. They arrived at a crowded valley where powerful factions gathered, leaving Xiao Yu prepared to deal with anyone who provoked them.

• Xiao Yu became a celebrated young Pill Tower Elder, then spent two months refining pills in seclusion.
• Zi Yan complained that she was bored, and Xiao Yu promised to take her and Medusa out the next day.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Wind-Thunder Mountain Range held the ruins of Wind Thunder Battle Venerable, a nine-revolutions Peak Dou Zun, and decided to investigate.
• Xiao Yu traveled with Zi Yan and Medusa through space wormholes to the Wind-Thunder Mountain Range, where factions had gathered to seek the ruins.
• Liu Tao ordered his followers to attack a man who insulted the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and the valley's powerful visitors continued waiting for the ruins' barrier to open.
• Xiao Yu and the two women arrived in the valley, and Xiao Yu warned Zi Yan not to cause trouble but told her to fight back if anyone attacked them.

Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan entered the Wind Thunder Battle Venerable’s ruins ahead of the other factions and raced through the palace, collecting pills and medicinal herbs. They reached a vast herb garden, where Xiao Yu began investigating its strange protections before letting Zi Yan gather anything.

• Xiao Yu carried Medusa and Zi Yan into the ruins before the other factions, using Zi Yan’s senses to collect precious herbs on their way to the center.
• Xiao Yu and his companions entered the palace and followed Zi Yan’s detection to the Pill Hall, where they gathered its sixth- and seventh-grade pills.
• The Heavenly Underworld Sect’s Six-Star Dou Zun reached the palace too late, then found the Wind Thunder Hall and discovered the Battle Venerable’s coffin.
• The elderly man left the coffin untouched and concealed himself, hoping the other Dou Zun would clear any dangers for him.
• Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan found a garden filled with more than ten thousand thriving medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yu examined it with his soul power before allowing Zi Yan to pick them.

Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan harvested the herbs in the Medicine Garden, then headed toward the center of the ruins after Xiao Yu sensed something was wrong. There, nine powerful Dou Zuns destroyed the coffin and revealed the Wind Thunder Battle Venerable’s remains and a sphere of Battle Venerable Origin.

• Xiao Yu discovered that the Medicine Garden’s restrictions recreated ideal growing environments for its herbs, though he could not figure out how they were made.
• Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan harvested all the herbs and then set off for the center of the ruins, wary of the lack of traps and visitors.
• At the Wind Thunder Hall, Yellow Springs Venerable proposed that the nine gathered experts open the coffin together, and the others agreed while remaining suspicious of one another.
• Yan Yu led the nine Dou Zuns in attacking the coffin, which exploded and brought down the Palace.
• The nine experts cleared away the rubble and revealed the Wind Thunder Battle Venerable’s skeleton and a sphere of Battle Venerable Origin.

Xiao Yu stole two scrolls while nine Dou Zun fought over a War Venerable’s essence, then fled the collapsing ruins with Medusa and Zi Yan. Two days later, an injured pursuer vowed to recover the scrolls and take revenge on Xiao Yu.

• All nine Dou Zun attacked each other for the War Venerable’s essence, and their battle devastated the hall and killed many people nearby.
• Xiao Yu secretly took the two scrolls with the Myriad Transformation Flame and escaped with Medusa and Zi Yan using Near-Horizon Wind Thunder.
• After the hall collapsed, Xiao Yu took the frightened women far from the ruins, and the three left the area.
• Two days later, Xiao Yu and his companions traveled through the southern Wind Thunder Mountains toward cities with wormholes to the Pill Region.
• An injured pursuer blamed Burning Flame Valley and Flower Sect for his wounds and vowed to recover the scrolls from Xiao Yu after he healed.

Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan hid from an injured six-star Dou Zun of the Heavenly Underworld Sect, then launched a surprise attack while he healed. The old man survived their assault and pursued them as Xiao Yu escaped with the two women.

• Xiao Yu sensed an injured Dou Zun approaching and concealed himself, Medusa, and Zi Yan with the Myriad Transformation Flame.
• The black-robed elder from the Heavenly Underworld Sect arrived and revealed that he had taken the Battle Venerable's essence and wanted to find the person who stole the scrolls.
• Xiao Yu realized the elder was threatening him, and he discussed a counterattack with Medusa and Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan attacked the elder as a crimson python, then Xiao Yu struck him with the Heaven-Shrouding Astral Fiend Great Hand Seal.
• The elder survived the attack, and Xiao Yu grabbed Medusa and Zi Yan and vanished before he could catch them.

Xiao Yu used his newly developed secret art to fight the wounded black-robed old man after the three of them ambushed him. The old man tried to escape, but Medusa stopped him before he could leave.

• Xiao Yu and his companions hid while the injured black-robed old man searched for them, and Xiao Yu decided they had to kill him before he could become a future threat.
• Xiao Yu confronted the old man, who recognized him as the man who had taken the two scrolls and threatened to kill him and reclaim them.
• Xiao Yu activated the Divine Origin Heaven Mysterious Transformation, raising his strength to the Two-Star Dou Zun level, and countered the old man's attack.
• Xiao Yu kicked the old man into a mountain, then withstood his gray beam with the Golden Light Dao Flame and taunted him.
• The old man tried to escape through space, but Medusa called out that she had not given him leave to go.

Xiao Yu, Medusa, and Zi Yan killed a gravely wounded Six-Star Dou Zun who had been pursuing them, and Xiao Yu took the mysterious treasure he had carried. After hiding their involvement and returning to Sacred Pill City, Xiao Yu shared their haul with Zi Yan, whose exuberant gratitude left Medusa looking at him suspiciously.

• Medusa ambushed the black-robed old man, and Xiao Yu destroyed him with the Void-Burning Divine Flame before he could self-destruct.
• Xiao Yu retrieved the glowing sphere, and he and Medusa agreed to erase their traces and keep their discovery secret, especially from the major powers.
• Xiao Yu used the Myriad Transformation Flame to remove every trace of their presence, then hurried with Medusa and Zi Yan back to Sacred Pill City.
• At the elder's residence, Xiao Yu divided their haul among three Storage Rings and gave one packed with medicinal ingredients and pills to Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan leaped onto Xiao Yu and kissed him in excitement, prompting him to set her down and threaten to take back the Storage Ring.
• Zi Yan insisted she had done nothing wrong, while Medusa eyed Xiao Yu as if he were a pervert.

Xiao Yu learned the Battle Venerable Origin’s value and began absorbing it in seclusion, expecting it to greatly strengthen him and provide insights into the Dou Zun Realm. As its energy and memories entered him, a voice proclaimed that Xiao Yu’s body would serve as a vessel for resurrection.

• Xiao Yu convinced Medusa to accept her share of the ruins’ spoils and called her his friend, prompting her to accept the Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yu told Zi Yan and Medusa to stay in the Pill Region while he investigated the ball of light.
• After half a month of investigation, Xiao Yu discovered that the ball of light was the Battle Venerable Origin and learned of its power.
• Xiao Yu entered seclusion and swallowed the Battle Venerable Origin, which flooded his body with energy and sent the Battle Venerable’s insights into his consciousness.
• A voice within Xiao Yu’s consciousness celebrated his body as a vessel for resurrection.

Xiao Yu was attacked by an old man hidden inside the battle venerable origin, who tried to seize his body. Xiao Yu unleashed his purple extreme astral thunder to overwhelm the intruder and left him screaming in agony.

• An old man emerged in Xiao Yu's Niwan Palace and announced that he would take over Xiao Yu's body.
• Xiao Yu summoned purple extreme astral thunder into his sea of consciousness, halting the old man's expansion and forcing him back.
• The old man charged at Xiao Yu, hoping to destroy his consciousness and claim his body, while coveting the purple lightning.
• Xiao Yu struck the old man with True Palm Lightning, tearing through his soul and leaving him screaming that he refused to accept defeat.

Xiao Yu absorbed the old man's unmarked soul power and broke through to Dou Zun, while Zi Yan and Medusa cultivated in seclusion. As the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool opened, Xiao Yan prepared to use it to advance and grow strong enough to catch up with Xiao Yu.

• The old man's soul power was left pure after his consciousness vanished, and Xiao Yu began absorbing it.
• Xiao Yu broke through to Dou Zun, manifesting the Eternal Reincarnation Spirit Lightning and Heavenly Evolution Profound Flame.
• Zi Yan and Medusa remained in seclusion for half a year, each seeking the strength to pursue her goals.
• At the Heavenly Mountain Platform, Xiao Yan resolved to advance to Dou Zong in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and was urged by Yao Chen to win the Pill Gathering.
• A pillar of light struck the volcanic crater as the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool opened.

After breaking through to Dou Zun, Xiao Yu explored his enhanced control over space and discovered the powers and risks of two new origin abilities. He absorbed the Wind-Thunder Venerable’s soul energy, reaching the peak of the intermediate Spirit Realm, and learned how the Venerable’s feud had led him to the Battle Venerable’s ruins.

• Xiao Yu used the Void-Burning Divine Flame to create an independent space and realized it let him surpass other Dou Zun experts in spatial abilities.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Heavenly Evolution Profound Flame could accelerate the growth of all things, while the Eternal Reincarnation Spirit Lightning could strengthen his soul through dangerous simulated reincarnation.
• Xiao Yu decided not to use the Eternal Reincarnation Spirit Lightning until he was confident he could withstand its risks, then resumed absorbing the Battle Venerable’s origin.
• Over half a year, Xiao Yu absorbed the old man’s soul energy and advanced his soul to the peak of the intermediate Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yu learned that the old man was the Wind-Thunder Venerable, who had fled a nine-revolution Dou Zun after seeking revenge and discovering his enemy was stronger.

After emerging from seclusion at Three-Star Dou Zun, Xiao Yu tested the Heavenly Evolution Profound Flame and used it to cultivate medicinal herbs in a new herb field. Zi Yan visited him after reaching High-Rank Dou Zong and asked him to refine her remaining herbs into pills.

• The chapter explained how the Wind-Thunder Venerable survived as a soul in the Battle Venerable Ruins and awakened when Xiao Yu absorbed the battle venerable origin.
• Two months later, Xiao Yu emerged from seclusion with Three-Star Dou Zun cultivation and advanced spirit realm soul power.
• Xiao Yu tested the Heavenly Evolution Profound Flame and found it could accelerate medicinal herb growth to about one year's growth in a day.
• Xiao Yu created an herb field in the elder's residence and used a child flame, sustained by magic cores, to grow the herbs.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Yu as a High-Rank Dou Zong and asked him to refine her remaining medicinal herbs into pills.

Xiao Yu used Tian Leizi’s Lightning Tribulation Pill formula to gather pill lightning and temper his body, refining six-colored eighth-tier pills and Lightning Tribulation Pills for half a year. The repeated six-colored tribulation clouds drew attention in the Inner Region, where Tian Leizi recognized Xiao Yu’s extraordinary progress.

• Zi Yan gave Xiao Yu the Lightning Tribulation Pill formula Tian Leizi had sent, and Xiao Yu decided to use it to cultivate the second level of the Eternal Undying Body.
• Xiao Yu sent Zi Yan to buy the listed medicinal ingredients using his Pill Tower Elder token, then refined her stored-up little pills.
• After Zi Yan and the Pill Tower supplied the ingredients, Xiao Yu obtained a five-colored eighth-tier pill formula from Tian Leizi and spent half a year refining pills.
• Xiao Yu used the Great Desolate Flame, Returning-to-Truth Lightning, and Five Qi Thunder to make six-colored eighth-tier pills, captured their pill lightning, and refined Lightning Tribulation Pills from it.
• Six-colored tribulation clouds repeatedly appeared north of the Pill Tower, and Tian Leizi watched them and marveled at Xiao Yu’s progress.

After half a year of seclusion, Xiao Yu reached peak Six-Star Dou Zun and began considering the second level of the eternal undying body. As the Pill Gathering drew near, a white-robed man visited the Xiao Residence and discovered that the little girl at its gate carried an imperial bloodline.

• Xiao Yu refined his final Lightning Tribulation Pill, raising his physical strength to rival a Seven-Star Dou Zun and his Dou Qi cultivation to peak Six-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu decided to pursue the second level of the eternal undying body, then left seclusion and returned to his room to sleep.
• As the Pill Gathering approached, visitors and factions flooded Sacred Pill City's Outer Region, while stories spread in the Inner Region about Xiao Yu summoning six-colored pill lightning twelve times.
• A white-robed middle-aged man heard about Xiao Yu's pill refining and traveled to the Xiao Residence to seek him out.
• A little girl opened the gate, and the white-robed man sensed an urge to submit to her before exclaiming that she had an imperial bloodline.