Recaps

Chen Xuan killed the Soul Hall's Ghost Spirit Old Man with a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique and stopped another Soul Hall expert from self-detonating, securing the Jia Ma Empire's victory. After leaving Jia Xingtian to handle the neighboring empires, Chen Xuan and the others departed for the Black-Corner Region, while Yun Shan accepted that the Misty Cloud Sect could no longer challenge Queen Medusa's power.

• Queen Medusa's Heaven-Rank Dou Technique overwhelmed the Ghost Spirit Old Man's Void Yin-Yang Palm and killed him with a single strike.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, the Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Xiao Yi Xian surrounded the remaining Soul Hall Protector, who tried to kill them by self-detonating.
• Chen Xuan froze the surrounding space and sent the Soul Hall Protector's explosion into a spatial vortex, saving the others.
• Chen Xuan told Jia Xingtian to take charge of the neighboring empires, then set out with Jia Xingtian, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others for the Black-Corner Region after resting three days.
• Yun Shan handed control of the Misty Cloud Sect back to Yun Yun after learning that Queen Medusa had slain a Dou Zun expert.

Han Feng and the Soul Hall attacked Demon Cloud City while Queen Medusa was away, revealing a plot to capture Yao Chen. Little Scale severely wounded Han Feng, but the Gold Protector confronted Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, leaving them facing the Soul Hall without a clear escape.

• Han Feng confronted Great Elder Snake Ji and the Snake-People Tribe with Gu He, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other defenders as the Soul Hall's five Dou Zong experts emerged from black mist.
• Han Feng revealed that he had lured Queen Medusa away and claimed a powerful ally in the Jia Ma Empire would kill her, while the Soul Hall demanded that he help capture Yao Chen.
• Han Feng identified Xiao Yan and Yao Chen inside Demon Cloud City, and the Gold Protector assigned the Silver Protector to capture Yao Chen while planning to seize Little Scale.
• Little Scale struck Han Feng with a wave of her hand, hurling him into the mountains and revealing that she possessed strength around the Seven-Star Dou Zong realm.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to escape while he held off the Gold and Silver Protectors, but the Gold Protector appeared above the city and declared that both master and disciple would be captured.

The Gold Protector captured Yao Chen and took him through a Spatial Vortex, while Yao Chen sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Gu He for Xiao Yan. As Han Feng tried to use Eagle Mountain Elder and Mo Tianxing against the Snake-People Tribe, they turned on him instead, and a familiar voice declared him a villain anyone had the right to slay.

• Yao Chen held off the Gold Protector long enough for Xiao Yan to escape Demon Cloud City and led their fight outside the city.
• The Gold Protector restrained Yao Chen with Soul Chains and captured him, but Yao Chen sent the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to Gu He before vanishing into a Spatial Vortex.
• Han Feng summoned Eagle Mountain Elder and Mo Tianxing to help attack the Snake-People Tribe, but the two veteran Dou Zong experts struck and pinned him down instead.
• Mo Tianxing and Eagle Mountain Elder explained that they opposed Han Feng’s plan to use the Soul Hall to dominate the Black-Corner Region.
• A familiar voice agreed that Han Feng was a villain anyone had the right to slay, leaving everyone shocked.

Chen Xuan returned with Queen Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe learned she had survived a Soul Hall Dou Zun and was nearing a breakthrough of her own. Xiao Yan arrived too late to save Yao Lao but received the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and learned that Yao Lao’s soul imprint remained within it, leaving hope for his teacher’s rescue.

• Queen Medusa returned, and Chen Xuan revealed that she had overcome a Soul Hall Dou Zun; the Silver Protector and three Soul Hall experts tried to flee but Chen Xuan killed them with Space Strangulation.
• Chen Xuan spared Mo Tianxing and Eagle Mountain Elder for choosing not to attack the Snake-People Tribe, imprisoned Han Feng, and rewarded the two men with pills.
• Chen Xuan praised Little Scale for protecting the tribe and discussed refining bodies for her and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Gu He revealed that Venerable Yao had left the Bone Spirit Cold Flame for Xiao Yan, who arrived with Qian Mu, Bai Lie, and Su Qian after Yao Lao had been captured.
• Chen Xuan gave Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and explained that Yao Lao’s soul imprint inside it meant there was still a way to save him.

Chen Xuan arranged for Xiao Yan to use Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame to prepare for the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection, while learning that Little Scale would need a rare eighth-rank snake-type beast’s body. After Xiao Yan extracted the flame and Chen Xuan refined the required Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s resurrection appeared close at hand.

• Chen Xuan offered Xiao Yan Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame, asking him to help refine a new body for the Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Xiao Yan explained the resurrection requirements and said Little Scale would need a body made from an eighth-rank snake-type magical beast; Chen Xuan accepted that the materials were unavailable for now.
• Chen Xuan warned Xiao Yan not to challenge the Soul Hall before reaching Dou Zun, then sent him to the dungeon to deal with Han Feng.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan emerged with Han Feng’s soul extracted and the Sea Heart Flame, while Chen Xuan kept Han Feng’s body to make a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and rose to the peak of six-star Dou Emperor as Chen Xuan gathered materials and refined the seventh-grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable rejoiced as the pill’s powerful phenomenon signaled that his resurrection was near.

Mo Ya entered the Snake-People Tribe’s blood pool to heal his injuries and seek a breakthrough to Dou Zong, while Chen Xuan prepared Xiao Yan to treat Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body. After strengthening the tribe and entrusting its safety to the Heavenly Fire Venerable, Chen Xuan entered seclusion to break through to Dou Zun.

• Great Elder Snake Ji led Mo Tianxing and Mo Ya into the Snake-People Tribe’s blood pool, where she explained its power to aid breakthroughs and improve aptitude.
• Mo Ya began cultivating in the blood pool, and its energy started healing the damage from his failed attempt to break through to Dou Zong.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable explained the Poison Pill Method to Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan agreed to treat Xiao Yi Xian using the gathered materials and his three heavenly flames.
• Chen Xuan told the Heavenly Fire Venerable that he planned to enter seclusion to advance from Half-Step Dou Zun and entrusted Demon Cloud City’s safety to him.
• Chen Xuan distributed pills and medicinal materials to strengthen the Snake-People Tribe, allowed the Gold and Silver Elders to use the blood pool, and then entered seclusion.

Chen Xuan secluded himself beneath the Sacred Hall to awaken his Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and gather the energy needed to break through to Dou Zun. After more than half a year, the energy vortex over Demon Cloud City vanished and a terrifying aura erupted, signaling that his breakthrough had begun.

• Chen Xuan entered seclusion in the Secret Chamber and absorbed the surrounding energy, causing a vast vortex to form above the Sacred Hall.
• Mo Ya emerged from the Blood Pool as a Dou Zong, while Mo Tianxing warned him never to provoke the Snake-People Tribe; Xiao Yan decided to head for the Central Plains to rescue his teacher and father.
• Over the next half year, Yue Mei, Gu He, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other Snake-People Tribe fighters advanced in strength as Demon Cloud City grew into the Black-Corner Region's greatest city.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable sensed that the energy vortex was changing, while the Snake-People Tribe's experts gathered and watched it shrink away.
• A boundless aura erupted across Demon Cloud City after the vortex vanished, and its experts recognized the pressure that had accompanied the Black-Corner Region's sole Dou Zun breaking through.

After Queen Medusa broke through to Dou Zun, Chen Xuan returned from more than half a year of seclusion as a Three-Star Dou Zun and prepared to leave the Black-Corner Region for the Central Plains. He entrusted the Snake-People Tribe’s people with resources and responsibilities, then set his departure for three days later.

• The Snake-People Tribe and Demon Cloud City celebrated Queen Medusa’s breakthrough to Dou Zun, and Chen Xuan emerged from seclusion at Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had controlled her Woeful Poison Body and advanced to peak Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Chen Xuan told the assembled leaders that he would leave for the Central Plains because the Black-Corner Region could no longer support his rapid advancement.
• Chen Xuan gave Gu He a Ninth-Grade Alchemy Master’s notes and distributed Blood Essence Pills to the Snake-People Tribe’s elders and leaders.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable chose to remain for ten years, received a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique, and promised to protect the Snake-People Tribe.
• Chen Xuan announced that he would depart in three days.

Chen Xuan left Demon Cloud City and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire to assess its expansion and discuss how to support its vast territory. After learning that the Lion Nether Sect and the Heavenly Snake Mansion had approached Jia Xingtian about cooperation, he went to meet their representatives.

• Chen Xuan entrusted the Snake-People Tribe to Heavenly Fire Venerable, Yue Mei, Gu He, and the other experts before leaving Demon Cloud City.
• While traveling through a spatial passage, Chen Xuan discussed visiting the Jia Ma Empire with Queen Medusa and proposed building a space wormhole to connect the Black-Corner Region with the Central Plains.
• Chen Xuan arrived in the expanded Jia Ma Imperial Capital and praised Jia Xingtian for uniting the Four Great Empires and developing the city.
• Jia Xingtian told Chen Xuan that the Lion Nether Sect had sought cooperation instead of attacking, while the Heavenly Snake Mansion had also come to establish friendly relations.
• Chen Xuan learned that the two factions knew of his breakthrough to Dou Zun and the Snake-People Tribe's two Dou Zun experts, then went with Jia Xingtian to meet their representatives.

Queen Medusa oversaw trade agreements between the Jia Ma Empire, the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and the Lion Nether Sect, then inspected the empire’s growing military and rewarded Jia Xingtian with Sect Breaking Pills. The chapter ended with Yun Shan asking Queen Medusa to protect the Misty Cloud Sect from the Soul Hall.

• Queen Medusa arrived at the Great Hall, where the Heavenly Snake Mansion and Lion Nether Sect proposed trade cooperation with the Jia Ma Empire, and the three parties reached an agreement.
• After a week in seclusion, Queen Medusa inspected the empire’s army and sensed unusual energy near the forbidden grounds, where Yao Yue was cultivating at Four-Star Dou Emperor.
• Queen Medusa gave Jia Xingtian two Sect Breaking Pills and told him to seek aid from Demon Cloud City if powerful enemies threatened the empire.
• Yun Shan arrived and revealed that the Misty Cloud Sect would submit to Queen Medusa if she protected it from the Soul Hall.

Yun Shan sought Queen Medusa’s help against the Soul Hall, which had demanded souls in exchange for helping him reach Dou Zong, but Chen Xuan refused and made his survival a test of his choices. Back at the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Shan chose to collect souls by attacking the Jia Ma Empire, just as an ominous voice answered him.

• Yun Shan admitted to Chen Xuan and Jia Xingtian that the Soul Hall had helped him break through and threatened to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect unless he collected powerful souls.
• Chen Xuan refused Yun Shan’s offer to place the Misty Cloud Sect under her command and said she would judge him by how he handled the crisis.
• Yun Shan returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and told Yun Yun that Queen Medusa had refused to help; Nalan Yanran also returned to stand with the sect.
• Elder Yun Lei proposed collecting souls by attacking the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran condemned the idea.
• Yun Shan overruled them and ordered the sect to follow Yun Lei’s proposal, calling the people’s lives worthless; a cold voice then rang out and frightened him.

Chen Xuan killed Yun Shan and let Yun Yun kill Vulture Protector, then warned the Misty Cloud Sect about the Soul Hall. Yun Yun disbanded the sect and left with Nalan Yanran, while Chen Xuan exposed and destroyed a fake Vulture Protector before departing.

• Chen Xuan killed Yun Shan in the Misty Cloud Sect hall, despite Yun Yun pleading for him to spare her teacher.
• Chen Xuan immobilized Vulture Protector, and Yun Yun asked to kill him herself; she struck him down with her Azure Longsword to avenge Yun Shan.
• Chen Xuan warned the Misty Cloud Sect that the Soul Hall might retaliate and left through a Spatial Vortex.
• Yun Yun announced that the Misty Cloud Sect was disbanded and left with Nalan Yanran.
• Chen Xuan revealed that Vulture Protector had only appeared to die, then burned him away with the green lotus core flame and truly departed.

Chen Xuan traveled from the Jia Ma Empire to Tianya City after receiving a map that showed the city’s space wormhole. He agreed to help the Luo Family repair it and was invited to an auction, where Queen Medusa planned to take the lead.

• Jia Xingtian gave Chen Xuan the materials he had gathered and a map of part of the Central Plains, and Chen Xuan chose to visit Tianya City.
• Yao Yue promised Chen Xuan she would keep training after he reminded her that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran had also reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Chen Xuan flew to Tianya City and learned from the scarred Luo Family Dou Emperor that spatial turbulence had damaged the city’s space wormhole.
• Chen Xuan agreed to help the Luo Family repair the wormhole in exchange for a reward and free use of it, then accepted their offer of lodging for the night.
• A woman in red invited Chen Xuan to the Luo Family inn’s auction, and Queen Medusa declared she would take charge while Chen Xuan reminded her to look for an Eighth-Tier Magic Core.

Queen Medusa attended the Luo Family auction in Tianya City, where she intimidated Ice River Valley after its young master insulted her and Chen Xuan explained the Central Plains’ major powers. The auction’s final item was an eighth-rank magical beast’s mummified corpse, and Chen Xuan told Medusa to buy it despite its missing magic core.

• Queen Medusa and Chen Xuan went to the auction, where Bingya of Ice River Valley provoked her and she forced him to his knees with her Dou Qi pressure.
• Elder Zhao apologized on Bingya’s behalf and offered an ice soul fruit, which Chen Xuan accepted before Medusa withdrew her pressure.
• The Luo Family began the auction, and Chen Xuan explained Ice River Valley and the other famous forces of the Central Plains to Medusa.
• Chen Xuan directed Medusa to bid on several high-tier medicinal materials as the auction progressed.
• The Luo Family presented the mummified corpse of an eighth-rank magical beast, and Chen Xuan confirmed that its magic core was gone.
• Chen Xuan told Medusa to buy the corpse because it still had other valuable parts.

At the Luo Family auction, Medusa and Chen Xuan acquired an eighth-rank magical beast’s corpse and a fragmentary map in exchange for a Barrier-Breaking Pill. The map pointed to dangerous ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range of the Beast Region, setting the pair on a new lead.

• Medusa recognized that the corpse might contain eighth-rank blood essence, while the Luo Family explained that its magic core was missing and required an exchange of equal value.
• After several experts failed to meet the seller’s price, the Luo Family elder asked whether Chen Xuan’s group included an alchemist, and Medusa revealed her status by intimidating the hall.
• The One-Eyed Elder explained that he had offered the corpse to obtain a pill for breaking through to Dou Zun, and Medusa advised him that the exchange would require more than the corpse alone.
• The One-Eyed Elder offered a fragmentary ruins map alongside the corpse, and Medusa exchanged a Barrier-Breaking Pill for both.
• The One-Eyed Elder revealed that the ruins lay in the Skeleton Mountain Range of the Beast Region, and Chen Xuan verified the map before Medusa stored it and the corpse.

Medusa discovered that she and Chen Xuan could now control their shared body at any time, then repaired the Luo Family’s space wormhole. After accepting Luo Cheng’s gift, she left through the wormhole.

• Medusa learned from Chen Xuan that the system upgrade let them switch control of their body freely.
• Luo Cheng escorted Medusa to the Luo Family’s space wormhole, where she met the Han Brothers and examined the failing passage.
• Medusa entered the wormhole, identified its fading spatial marks, and used her spatial power to restore them.
• Luo Cheng and the Han Brothers contained the spatial power surging from the entrance while Medusa worked for two hours.
• Medusa emerged after fully repairing the wormhole, accepted a Space Flying Ship from Luo Cheng, and departed through the passage.

Queen Medusa and Chen Xuan arrived in Heavenly Mystery City, where Chen Xuan entered the Pill Tower to take a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist assessment. He began refining a pill with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the resulting pill lightning revealed that it was at least a high-grade seventh-rank pill.

• Queen Medusa emerged from the space wormhole, subdued the guards who stared at her, and explored Heavenly Mystery City while eating candied hawthorn.
• Chen Xuan learned that Burning Flame Valley was seeking alchemists to help refine a high-grade seventh-rank pill and went to the Pill Tower for an assessment.
• Chen Xuan requested the Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist assessment and showed the Pill Tower staff his Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Su Ying brought Chen Xuan to the assessment grounds, where Chen Xuan used the Green Lotus Core Flame and Snake King Cauldron to refine a pill.
• Dark clouds gathered over the plaza, and pill lightning appeared as Chen Xuan's pill neared completion.

Chen Xuan passed the Pill Tower’s examination by refining a high seventh-grade pill and received an intermediate seventh-grade alchemist certification. After waiting in Heavenly Mystery City, he met the Burning Flame Valley delegation seeking his help with a pill, including a woman whose fiery aura caught his attention.

• Chen Xuan destroyed the pill lightning with his God-Demon Hand, captured the pill after it took the form of a snow rabbit, and earned the Pill Tower’s recognition as an intermediate seventh-grade alchemist.
• Su Ying gave Chen Xuan an invitation from the Burning Flame Valley, which needed a high-level alchemist with heavenly flames to refine a pill for Tang Zhen’s daughter.
• Chen Xuan returned to the inn, and he and Queen Medusa explored Heavenly Mystery City while he waited for the Burning Flame Valley to approach him.
• On the seventh day, a Burning Flame Valley delegation arrived at the inn, led by a Dou Zun and accompanied by a red-clad Dou Zong woman with an unusual fiery aura.

Chen Xuan negotiated with Tang Zhen to refine a Fire Bodhi Pill and reunited with Xiao Yan at the Burning Flame Valley. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking Tang Zhen for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations as his reward.

• Tang Zhen asked Chen Xuan to refine a seventh-grade pill, and Chen Xuan agreed in exchange for three eighth-tier magic cores.
• Tang Zhen brought Chen Xuan to the Burning Flame Valley, where Chen Xuan encountered Xiao Yan among the assembled alchemists.
• Xiao Yan revealed his heavenly flame, and Tang Zhen selected him and Chen Xuan to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Tang Zhen explained that the pill was needed to save Tang Huo'er from a backlash caused by the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Xiao Yan asked Tang Zhen whether he could receive the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations as compensation.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan joined Tang Zhen in refining the Fire Bodhi Pill, earning the promised rewards after their success. As Chen Xuan prepared to leave with three eighth-tier magic cores, Tang Zhen told him that Burning Flame Valley’s Dou Sheng ancestor wanted to meet him and led him into the volcanic valley.

• Tang Zhen agreed to let Xiao Yan attempt to cultivate the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations if he and Chen Xuan successfully refined the Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Tang Zhen refined the pill’s ingredients and spent seven days merging their medicinal essences.
• The Fire Bodhi Pill took shape and summoned pill lightning, which Tang Zhen endured before collecting the completed pill.
• Tang Zhen took Xiao Yan to cultivate the secret technique, then gave Chen Xuan three eighth-tier magic cores.
• Tang Zhen told Chen Xuan that Burning Flame Valley’s ancestor wanted to meet him and led him toward the bottom of a volcanic valley.

Chen Xuan met Old Ancestor Huoyun, who revealed that the Soul Hall Master had left him with a severe chill-based injury that even the Pill Tower could not cure. Chen Xuan proposed using Xiao Yan’s fused Heavenly Flame to treat him, and Huoyun summoned Yan Xiao to confirm the claim.

• Tang Zhen led Chen Xuan through the magma valley to meet Old Ancestor Huoyun alone.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun saw through Chen Xuan’s unusual body and his shared secret with Medusa, but said he would not probe further.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun revealed that the Soul Hall Master had injured him during his breakthrough to Dou Sheng, leaving chilling power that he suppressed with underground magma.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun asked Chen Xuan to treat him after reaching Dou Sheng, since the Pill Tower Ancestor was missing and the Little Pill Tower’s experts could not help.
• Chen Xuan suggested that four Heavenly Flames could counter the chilling power and explained that Yan Xiao’s flame was formed by fusing three Heavenly Flames.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun doubted Chen Xuan’s claim, then called for Tang Zhen to bring Yan Xiao in.

Chen Xuan and Old Ancestor Huoyun discussed Yan Xiao’s three merged Heavenly Flames and the Soul Hall before Xiao Yan arrived and tested his flames against Huoyun’s hidden injury. Xiao Yan could not overcome the sinister cold energy yet, so Huoyun promised to help him obtain the Pill Tower’s unclaimed Heavenly Flame, leaving Xiao Yan set to return once he grew stronger.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun questioned Chen Xuan about Yan Xiao’s ability to merge three Heavenly Flames, and Chen Xuan explained that Yan Xiao was Yao Chen’s disciple who practiced the Flame Mantra.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun warned Chen Xuan that the Soul Hall was far stronger than it appeared and advised her to flee if she could not defeat it.
• Tang Zhen brought Xiao Yan to the Magma World, where Old Ancestor Huoyun recognized the three Heavenly Flames inside him and revealed his Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame to examine Huoyun’s injury, but the sinister cold energy overpowered the flames and injured Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan promised to return after reaching the Dou Zun realm and obtaining a fourth Heavenly Flame, and Old Ancestor Huoyun offered to help him obtain the Pill Tower’s unclaimed flame.

After leaving the Burning Flame Valley, Chen Xuan warned Xiao Yan that obtaining the Three Thousand Burning Flame would require Zi Yan’s help, then accepted Xiao Yan’s Eighth-Tier Magic Core. Chen Xuan traveled to Sacred Pill City to pursue Spirit Realm soul power, where he and Medusa met the gifted alchemist Cao Ying.

• Chen Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Three Thousand Burning Flame bore the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s imprint and that Zi Yan could help him obtain it.
• Xiao Yan thanked Chen Xuan by giving him an Eighth-Tier Magic Core, then said he would investigate the Soul Hall and his imprisoned teacher, Yao Chen.
• Chen Xuan told Xiao Yan he planned to visit Sacred Pill City to advance his soul toward the Spirit Realm and reminded him of his promise to help rescue Yao Chen if needed.
• Chen Xuan and Medusa arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Medusa sampled food from the market despite Chen Xuan urging her to keep a low profile.
• Cao Ying approached Medusa, and the crowd identified her as a celebrated Pill Tower Giant Candidate and advanced seventh-tier alchemist.

Chen Xuan and Medusa visited Sacred Pill City’s Alchemist Platform in search of Eighth-Tier Magic Cores, where Chen Xuan found one and confronted its seller over an exorbitant price. The chapter ended with Chen Xuan overpowering the gray-robed old man’s aura and drawing attention from the third floor’s alchemists and Dou Zun experts.

• Cao Ying told Medusa about the Pill Gathering and its reward: a chance for the top ten alchemists to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Chen Xuan revealed his immense soul power and azure heavenly flame to Cao Ying, then asked her to help him find Eighth-Tier Magic Cores.
• Cao Ying took Chen Xuan to the Alchemist Platform, where he traded pills for rare medicinal materials on the third level.
• Chen Xuan found an Eighth-Tier Magic Core, but Bingya recognized him and immediately backed away from competing for it.
• The gray-robed old man demanded an advanced seventh-grade pill formula for the core, and Chen Xuan threatened him before overwhelming his aura with his own Three-Star Dou Zun Peak strength.

Chen Xuan clashed with Xuan Yin Old Ghost while searching Sacred Pill City for an eighth-tier magic core, then traded for a rare bronze disc and met Yan Li, who offered a Heavenly Demon Phoenix core in exchange for help entering ruins. Chen Xuan agreed to take Yan Li to the Skeleton Mountain Range ruins and gave him a token to find him later.

• Chen Xuan faced down Xuan Yin Old Ghost on the Alchemist Platform, but a powerful disheveled old man intervened before they fought; Chen Xuan secretly marked Xuan Yin Old Ghost for tracking.
• Chen Xuan and Cao Ying searched the platform for an eighth-tier magic core and found a bronze disc containing spirit nurturing dust, which Chen Xuan traded for a Pure Heart Pill formula.
• Yan Li caught up with Chen Xuan and revealed an eighth-tier Heavenly Demon Phoenix magic core, which Chen Xuan agreed to take.
• Yan Li offered the magic core in exchange for Chen Xuan taking him to ruins, and Chen Xuan recognized his map as depicting the Skeleton Mountain Range.
• Chen Xuan accepted Yan Li's request, gave him a token, and departed with the magic core.