Recaps

Chen Xuan stayed at the Cao Family estate in Sacred Pill City while Cao Ying introduced him to her family and discussed the upcoming Pill Gathering. In his courtyard, he refined the bronze disc’s inscriptions into ten drops of Spirit Nurturing Dust and continued planning his search for the Skeleton Mountain Range’s secrets.

• Cao Ying invited Chen Xuan to stay at the Cao Family estate until the auction began, and he accepted.
• Cao Ying warned Cao Xiu and Cao Dan not to disrespect Chen Xuan, then led him to a luxurious courtyard.
• Cao Ying told the Cao Family ancestor that Chen Xuan was a powerful Three-Star Dou Zun and high-rank seventh-tier alchemist, and the ancestor approved befriending him and offered an Eighth-Tier Magic Core.
• Chen Xuan reviewed his six magic cores and two maps of the Skeleton Mountain Range, then scraped the ancient inscriptions from Yan Li’s bronze disc.
• Chen Xuan refined the scraped powder with the Green Lotus Core Flame and obtained ten drops of Spirit Nurturing Dust.

Chen Xuan absorbed spirit nurturing dust and reached the peak of the mortal realm in soul power, then traded gifts with Cao Ying and mastered the Soul Heaven Seal. After Cao Ying also reached the mortal-realm peak, Chen Xuan prepared to leave for Sacred Pill City's auction.

• Chen Xuan absorbed five grains of spirit nurturing dust over three days, bringing his soul power to the peak of the mortal realm but not breaking into the spirit realm.
• Cao Ying gave Chen Xuan an Eighth-Tier Magic Core and the Soul Heaven Seal, and Chen Xuan gave her three grains of spirit nurturing dust.
• Chen Xuan spent seven days mastering the Soul Heaven Seal, then ended his cultivation to attend Sacred Pill City's auction and search for earth core soul marrow.
• Chen Xuan met Cao Xiu and Cao Dan outside Cao Ying's courtyard and saw Cao Ying's soul power reach the peak of the mortal realm after using the spirit nurturing dust.
• Chen Xuan told Cao Ying it was time to set out, while Cao Xiu and Cao Dan realized Chen Xuan had helped her advance.

Chen Xuan attended the Sacred Pill Auction with Cao Ying and the Cao Family, where major Central Plains factions and powerful Dou Zun experts gathered for an unusually important event. The auction began with rare treasures, and its latest item—the eighth-rank Blue Poison Beast’s magic core—caught Chen Xuan’s interest.

• Chen Xuan and Cao Ying entered the auction house through the honored guests’ passage and joined the Cao Family in its private room.
• Cao Ying, Cao Xiu, and Cao Dan noticed that many major factions had gathered, including Burning Flame Valley, the Nether River Sect, and the Soul Hall.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost announced that the Soul Hall would claim an item, and Tang Zhen challenged his arrogance from another private room.
• Qin Wanli opened the auction, and Chen Xuan observed Venerable Feng and the other leaders of the Four Pavilions among the attendees.
• Cao Ying and the others bid on medicinal herbs while Qin Wanli auctioned rare treasures, including an Earth-Rank Dou Technique and high-grade spiritual herbs.
• Qin Wanli presented the eighth-rank Blue Poison Beast’s magic core, and Chen Xuan smiled as bidding began.

Chen Xuan won the Blue Poison Beast’s eighth-tier magic core after Tang Zhen invoked the Burning Flame Valley’s support, then watched the auction continue until earth core soul marrow appeared. The seller demanded a high-rank seventh-grade aptitude-enhancing pill, and the alchemists weighed the costly exchange.

• Master Jin Yuan bid an Earth-tier mid-grade cultivation technique for the Blue Poison Beast’s magic core, but Chen Xuan countered with a Dou Technique and a seventh-grade pill.
• Tang Zhen recognized Chen Xuan and publicly mentioned his friendship with Old Ancestor Huoyun, discouraging the other bidders from competing.
• Qin Wanli declared Chen Xuan the winner of the magic core, while the Cao Family members realized how close he was to the Burning Flame Valley.
• A concealed five-star Dou Zun won the high-grade Earth-tier Yin Fiend Finger, and Chen Xuan watched without bidding.
• Qin Wanli revealed earth core soul marrow, and Cao Ying offered a Myriad Medicines Origin Pill, but the seller rejected it and requested a high-rank seventh-grade aptitude-enhancing pill.

At the auction, Chen Xuan’s offer of a Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill for the earth core soul marrow was outbid by Green-Robed Old Monster’s Blood Demon Origin Pill. The auction then revealed a map to the Creation Saint’s Dou Sheng ruins, and the Sound Valley approached Chen Xuan seeking his pill.

• Chen Xuan offered a high-grade seventh-rank Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill for the earth core soul marrow and explained that it could improve aptitude.
• Green-Robed Old Monster offered a Blood Demon Origin Pill, and the seller chose it for the earth core soul marrow; Chen Xuan refused the seller’s offer to buy his pill.
• Qin Wanli introduced a map to the Creation Saint’s Dou Sheng ruins, and the auction house began collecting sealed bids from the gathered factions.
• Chen Xuan submitted his bid for the ruins map while Medusa warned him that its winner would face danger from rival factions.
• Three representatives of the Sound Valley entered the Cao Family’s guest room and asked Chen Xuan for the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.

Chen Xuan rejected Sound Valley’s offer to trade its Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill for his pill, but agreed to visit its Soul-Refining Secret Realm in a month to strengthen his soul. At the auction, Star-Picking Old Ghost won the map fragment to the Dou Saint Ruins, drawing a threat from Tang Zhen.

• Chen Xuan demanded more earth core soul marrow from Venerable Xuan Yin, then pressured a Sound Valley disciple who insulted him and insisted that the pill could only be traded for the marrow.
• Venerable Xuan Yin offered Chen Xuan access to Sound Valley’s Soul-Refining Secret Realm, and he accepted, planning to visit in a month after finishing business in Sacred Pill City.
• After leaving Chen Xuan, Venerable Xuan Yin warned her disciple not to underestimate powerful outsiders and explained that Sound Valley needed the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• Qin Wanli announced that Star-Picking Old Ghost had won the Dou Saint Ruins map fragment, and Tang Zhen threatened him while Star-Picking Old Ghost warned that the Soul Hall could destroy Hun Yan Valley.

Chen Xuan followed Tang Zhen and Star-Picking Old Ghost’s battle over the Dou Saint Ruins map, then joined other Dou Zun experts in surrounding Star-Picking Old Ghost. Star-Picking Old Ghost threw the map to Tang Zhen and escaped into the void, leaving the assembled experts to contend over the prize.

• Cao Ying left with Cao Xiu and Cao Dan while Chen Xuan followed Tang Zhen and Star-Picking Old Ghost toward a remote wilderness.
• Chen Xuan encountered Xiao Yan, who introduced her to Venerable Feng and explained how she had helped him and Yao Chen.
• Chen Xuan proposed that the experts join forces to defeat Star-Picking Old Ghost before Soul Hall reinforcements arrived, and six Dou Zun experts joined Tang Zhen in surrounding him.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost revealed the real map to the Dou Saint Ruins, threw it toward Tang Zhen, and escaped into the void.

Tang Zhen threw the Dou Saint Ruins map to Chen Xuan, who reclaimed it from Xuan Mingzi and fled through a spatial passage as six Dou Zun experts pursued him. After emerging, Chen Xuan split into six identical figures and sent them fleeing in different directions, leaving the pursuers to chase them separately.

• Tang Zhen threw the Dou Saint Ruins map toward Chen Xuan as five Dou Zun experts attacked him.
• Xuan Mingzi used the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body to seize the map, but Chen Xuan struck him with three palm seals and took it back.
• Chen Xuan escaped into a spatial passage with the map as Xuan Mingzi, Thunder Venerable, Green-Robed Old Monster, and the other experts pursued him.
• Xiao Yan told Tang Zhen and Venerable Feng that Chen Xuan was the Queen of the Snake-People Tribe and said he trusted Chen Xuan to withstand the pursuers.
• After emerging from the spatial passage, Chen Xuan split into six identical figures, and the Dou Zun experts divided to chase them.

Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa fought Xuan Mingzi over the map to the Dou Saint Ruins, leaving both sides badly injured before Xuan Mingzi escaped. Chen Xuan took Xuan Mingzi’s severed hand and Storage Ring, then vanished as the other Dou Zun experts arrived and discovered the battle’s aftermath.

• Xuan Mingzi attacked Chen Xuan, but Queen Medusa revealed her true form as the Seven-Colored Heaven-Connecting Python and drove him back.
• Xuan Mingzi escaped Medusa’s coils with Heavenly Underworld Avatar, then unleashed the Heavenly Nether Asura Hand against her.
• Medusa and Xuan Mingzi’s attacks collided, grievously injuring Medusa and leaving Xuan Mingzi wounded and weakened.
• Chen Xuan severed Xuan Mingzi’s right hand with his Fangtian Painted Halberd, and Xuan Mingzi escaped after threatening him with the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s retaliation.
• Chen Xuan retrieved the Storage Ring from Xuan Mingzi’s severed hand and vanished before the other five Dou Zun experts arrived.
• Tang Zhen, Feng Xian, and Xiao Yan reached the ruined battlefield, where they found Xuan Mingzi’s severed arm and realized how powerful Medusa was.

Chen Xuan recovered from his injuries in the Demon Cave Mountain Range, looted Xuan Mingzi’s Storage Ring, and found an Emperor Spirit Fruit beneath a lava pool. He emerged with the fruit only to face the furious eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Tiger who had guarded it.

• Chen Xuan healed most of his injuries over seven days while absorbing the mountain range’s volatile energy, and Medusa treated her soul injuries.
• Chen Xuan opened Xuan Mingzi’s Storage Ring and obtained treasures and the Heavenly Nether Finger, while Xuan Mingzi vowed revenge after sensing the ring’s imprint was destroyed.
• Chen Xuan detected four peak seventh-tier Heavenly Demon Tigers and an eighth-rank expert closing in, then secretly slipped past them toward the expert’s mountain.
• Chen Xuan found and collected an Emperor Spirit Fruit hidden beneath lava, leaving its tree behind.
• The eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Tiger confronted Chen Xuan as he emerged from the lava, furious that he had stolen the fruit.

Chen Xuan defeated Mo Ming and another powerful magical beast while plundering medicinal materials across the Demon Cave Mountain Range. After consuming the refined essence of hundreds of herbs in seclusion, he broke through to mid-stage Four-Star Dou Zun.

• Mo Ming used the Heavenly Demon Formation to rise to peak Four-Star Dou Zun, but Chen Xuan defeated and killed him, then killed the four Peak Dou Zong experts who fled.
• Chen Xuan collected Mo Ming's corpse, magic core, and the rare medicinal materials in his cave dwelling.
• Over the next week, Chen Xuan plundered medicinal materials across the Demon Cave Mountain Range and defeated the Five-Star Dou Zun Nethercloud Flood Dragon, obtaining its corpse, magic core, and dragoncloud vine.
• Chen Xuan retreated to a secluded cavern and refined hundreds of medicinal herbs into concentrated essence.
• After absorbing the essence for a month, Chen Xuan broke through to mid-stage Four-Star Dou Zun.

Chen Xuan reached Sound Valley and met Venerable Xuan Yin, who revealed that the valley’s master, Qing You, needed his Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill to treat injuries threatening her unborn child. The chapter ended with Venerable Xuan Yin asking Chen Xuan to give them the pill so the child’s future would not be ruined.

• Chen Xuan followed Sound Valley’s map through a guarded mountain range and met the disciple Xue Yin, who directed him deeper into the mountains.
• Chen Xuan reached Sound Valley’s entrance, showed the guards his map, and followed a disciple through a spatial passage into the hidden valley.
• Venerable Xuan Yin welcomed Chen Xuan as Queen Medusa and explained that news of his victory over Xuan Mingzi had spread across the Central Plains.
• Venerable Xuan Yin led Chen Xuan to Sound Valley Master Qing You, who was gravely injured while pregnant.
• Chen Xuan assessed that Qing You’s injuries had damaged the fetus’s foundation, and Venerable Xuan Yin pleaded for the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill to help the child.

Chen Xuan learned that Valley Master Qingyou’s injuries came from Old Man Mu Gu of the Soul Hall and arranged for Sound Valley to gather materials for two pills. While waiting for the Soul-Refining Secret Realm to open, he received powerful sign-in rewards, including a secret technique that could form a giant thousands of zhang tall.

• Valley Master Qingyou told Chen Xuan that Old Man Mu Gu had ambushed and severely injured her, threatening her pregnancy.
• Chen Xuan explained that Qingyou’s injuries weakened the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill’s effect and offered to refine a Flame Spirit Pill once Sound Valley gathered its ingredients.
• Venerable Xuan Yin agreed to collect the Flame Spirit Pill ingredients and the materials Chen Xuan needed for an Emperor Spirit Pill within half a month.
• Venerable Xuan Yin brought Chen Xuan to stay in Sound Valley for a week until the Soul-Refining Secret Realm opened, while Queen Medusa continued cultivating after her defeat by Xuan Mingzi.
• Chen Xuan activated Monthly Mystery Sign-In and received ten Earth Demon Puppets, the Spirit Ascension Method, and the Heavenly Underworld Method, Qi Transforming Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Xuan examined Qi Transforming Heaven and Earth and learned that it could condense Dou Qi into a giant’s true form up to a thousand zhang tall.

Chen Xuan prepared to enter Sound Valley’s Soul-Refining Secret Realm, where he reunited with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran and learned that ancient soul bodies awaited inside. He entered the dangerous realm as its fifteen-day opening began.

• Chen Xuan followed Venerable Xuan Yin to Sound Valley’s gathering point and learned that the Flower Sect had secured a place in the Soul-Refining Secret Realm.
• Chen Xuan recognized Hong Yin, and Venerable Xuan Yin revealed that Hong Yin was her mischievous daughter and threatened to confine her after the trip.
• Chen Xuan reunited with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, who warned him that the Heavenly Underworld Sect had spread a rumor that he possessed a map to the Dou Saint Ruins.
• Venerable Xuan Yin led Chen Xuan, Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, Hong Yin, and Sound Valley disciples to the realm’s entrance and explained that its ancient battlefield contained powerful soul bodies.
• Venerable Xuan Yin opened the formation and warned the group about dangers inside, while Chen Xuan entered the Soul-Refining Secret Realm ahead of the others.

Chen Xuan ventured into the Soul-Refining Secret Realm seeking a powerful Soul Crystal to advance his soul, but a gray-robed elder revealed that Life Essence beneath a mountain lake could help him reach the spirit realm. After agreeing to share it, Chen Xuan suddenly attacked the elder.

• Chen Xuan and his companions entered the Soul-Refining Secret Realm, where Hong Yin explained that Soul Crystals could strengthen their soul power.
• Chen Xuan split from the others and traveled deeper into the wasteland, collecting six yellow Soul Crystals from Dou Zong soul bodies while seeking a stronger target.
• Chen Xuan reached a lush mountain at the realm's deepest point and met a gray-robed elder with a spirit realm soul.
• The elder told Chen Xuan that Life Essence beneath the lake could help him break through to the spirit realm, and asked for a share of it.
• Chen Xuan agreed, then demanded to borrow the elder's head and attacked him with the Heaven Annihilating Seal.

Chen Xuan exposed Venerable Evil Earth’s plan to steal his body and defeated the Spirit Realm Soul Body with Clear Flame and Yellow Springs Finger. After claiming Venerable Evil Earth’s Soul Crystal, Chen Xuan discovered the Life Essence beneath the ruined mountain, giving him two resources to strengthen himself.

• Venerable Evil Earth revealed that he intended to devour Chen Xuan’s soul and use his Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python body to escape the Soul-Refining Secret Realm.
• Chen Xuan and Venerable Evil Earth clashed, while Yun Yun, Hong Yin, and the other disciples felt the battle’s destructive shock waves from the middle region.
• After an hour of fighting, Chen Xuan burned and weakened Venerable Evil Earth with Clear Flame, then destroyed his soul true body with Yellow Springs Finger.
• Venerable Evil Earth vanished, and Chen Xuan took his Spirit Realm Soul Crystal as the attack shattered the formation in the lake.
• Chen Xuan found the Life Essence beneath the ruined mountain and prepared to use it with the Soul Crystal to increase his strength.

Chen Xuan entered the Soul-Refining Secret Realm seeking powerful Soul Crystals to advance his soul to the spirit realm. At the deepest part, a gray-robed elder revealed a source of Life Essence and offered to guide him to it, but Chen Xuan suddenly attacked the elder instead.

• Chen Xuan and his companions entered the secret realm, where Hong Yin explained that Soul Crystals could strengthen their souls.
• Chen Xuan traveled deeper alone, collected six yellow Soul Crystals from Dou Zong-level soul bodies, and sensed a spirit realm soul ahead.
• Chen Xuan reached a mountain protected from spatial turbulence and met a gray-robed elder who recognized his strength and bloodline.
• The elder told Chen Xuan that Life Essence beneath the mountain could help him reach the spirit realm, and opened the lake to reveal it.
• After promising to share the Life Essence, Chen Xuan attacked the gray-robed elder with the Heaven Annihilating Seal.

After emerging from the Soul-Refining Secret Realm with her soul power advanced to the spirit realm, Chen Xuan received Sound Valley’s collected ingredients and began refining the Flame Spirit Pill for its master. The pill took shape after three days, and pill lightning signaled that the refinement had succeeded as Sound Valley watched.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran returned from the secret realm, and Chen Xuan emerged with his soul power advanced to the spirit realm.
• Chen Xuan told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan was the Starfall Pavilion’s young master and had reached Three-Star Dou Zong, then accepted Sound Valley’s gathered medicinal materials.
• Three days later, Chen Xuan began refining the Flame Spirit Pill before Sound Valley’s elders and disciples, including a Half-Saint elder.
• Chen Xuan used his soul power and Green Lotus Core Flame to refine hundreds of medicinal materials at once, impressing the onlookers with his control.
• After three days of refining, a pill took shape and pill lightning gathered overhead, signaling the pill’s success.

Chen Xuan used the Spirit Ascension Method to raise a top-grade seventh-grade Flame Spirit Pill into an eighth-tier Blood Boa Flame Spirit Pill, while its lightning advanced his puppet. He used the pill to heal Valley Master Qingyou, earned the Sound Valley’s gratitude, and received the old woman’s promise of aid.

• Chen Xuan removed the nearly completed Flame Spirit Pill from the cauldron and used fused flames, spirit-nurturing dust, and his blood to raise it to the eighth tier.
• The pill manifested as a blood-colored python, and its two-colored lightning struck Chen Xuan’s Earth Demon Puppet, advancing it to the pale-gold, Half-Step Dou Zun stage.
• Chen Xuan accepted recognition as an eighth-tier Grandmaster Alchemist and credited the Sound Valley’s Soul-Refining Secret Realm for helping him reach the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Xuan used the Blood Boa Flame Spirit Pill to remove the yin energy from Valley Master Qingyou and improve her child’s aptitude with the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• Chen Xuan told the old woman that he had learned the Spirit Ascension Method from Yao Chen, and she promised to assist him once if he ever needed her help.

After leaving Sound Valley, Chen Xuan returned to Sacred Pill City for the Pill Gathering, where he confronted and drove off Old Man Mu Gu of the Soul Hall. As the gathering approached, Chen Xuan continued cultivating and made progress with Qi Transforming Heaven and Earth.

• Chen Xuan declined Valley Master Qingyou's invitation and left Sound Valley, while Venerable Xuan Yin and the others marveled at his strength.
• Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa returned to Sacred Pill City, where Medusa drew attention from people seeking the map to the Dou Saint Ruins.
• Old Man Mu Gu confronted Chen Xuan in the inn, but Chen Xuan repelled his soul attack and forced him to retreat.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi discussed Chen Xuan's strength, her connection to Cao Ying, and the Soul Hall's growing threat to the Pill Tower.
• During the month before the Pill Gathering, Chen Xuan cultivated Qi Transforming Heaven and Earth and learned to condense a hundred-zhang Dou Qi true body.

Chen Xuan joined the Pill Gathering in Sacred Pill City, where the Pill Tower announced that the champion would receive an ancient soul cultivation method. After passing the first trial, he entered the Pill Realm to gather medicinal materials for the second trial.

• Chen Xuan observed powerful Alchemy Masters gathering for the Pill Gathering and used the month before its opening to prepare.
• Chen Xuan arrived at the packed gathering grounds, greeted Cao Ying and Xiao Yan, and recognized Old Ancestor Huoyun beside Xiao Yan.
• The Pill Tower's Three Giants opened the gathering, and Xuan Kongzi announced that the champion would receive an ancient soul cultivation method and a chance to become a Pill Tower Giant.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun promised Xiao Yan access to the heavenly flame barrier and said he would help him obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Chen Xuan passed the illusion trial with ease as the first trial eliminated roughly thirty percent of the Alchemy Masters.
• The Pill Tower began the second trial, sending Chen Xuan into the Pill Realm to find specified medicinal materials within ten days; the examiner warned him not to slaughter its powerful magic beasts.

Chen Xuan and Cao Ying traveled through the Pill Realm to gather their required herbs, then joined the crowd heading to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. Chen Xuan revealed his overwhelming strength and attacked the mountain’s formation, while Xiao Yan recognized the Emperor Seal Art he used.

• Chen Xuan met Cao Ying after entering the Pill Realm, and they agreed to travel together to collect their medicinal ingredients.
• Over three days, Chen Xuan gathered all three required herbs and helped Cao Ying collect two of hers; they then headed for the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Cao Ying explained that the mountain’s powerful magical beast had gathered many medicinal herbs in its lair, and Chen Xuan sensed that it was a genuine eighth-rank beast.
• Chen Xuan subdued the gathered contestants with his Dou Zun pressure, while Xiao Yan watched in shock and resolved to obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Old Man Mu Gu fled after Chen Xuan spotted him, and Chen Xuan unleashed his Five-Star Dou Zun aura before striking the mountainside with the Sea Overturning Seal.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Emperor Seal Art in Chen Xuan’s attack and wondered where Queen Medusa had learned it.

Chen Xuan defeated Xiong Zhan, negotiated for half the medicinal materials in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and claimed the rarest herbs. Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan and left with a chance to use the remaining herbs to advance his soul before the Pill Gathering.

• Chen Xuan struck down Xiong Zhan with the Emperor Seal Art as the crowd realized an eighth-rank magical beast had appeared.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan, who explained that she had fled her clan after they tried to make her the next Dragon Emperor.
• Chen Xuan agreed to take half the medicinal materials, and Xiong Zhan accepted to avoid a fight.
• Chen Xuan entered the Back Mountain and used his powerful soul to select and store the best half of its vast supply of herbs.
• Xiao Yan said the remaining medicinal materials might help him advance to a Spirit Realm Soul and compete at the Pill Gathering, and Xiong Zhan offered him free use of the herbs.

Chen Xuan entered the Pill Gathering’s final round and began refining the Emperor Spirit Pill, a rare Eighth-Tier Pill that could raise a Dou Zun’s strength by one or two stars. He successfully refined its precious emperor spirit fruit, while the contest continued around him and another Alchemist completed a high-grade seventh-tier pill.

• Chen Xuan and Cao Ying left the Pill Realm, joined the surviving Alchemists, and passed into the final round after submitting their task materials.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Pill Gathering’s final contest, and Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Old Man Mu Gu each revealed a heavenly flame.
• Chen Xuan prepared hundreds of medicinal materials and began refining the Emperor Spirit Pill in his Snake King Cauldron.
• Chen Xuan carefully refined the emperor spirit fruit without damaging it, drawing astonishment from the Pill Tower’s Three Giants.
• Three days later, an Alchemist refined a high-grade seventh-tier pill, summoned pill lightning, and successfully completed the pill.

Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Old Man Mu Gu, and the other finalists refined their pills as the Pill Gathering narrowed to its strongest contestants. Old Man Mu Gu produced a pill with four-colored lightning, leaving Chen Xuan as the only remaining participant still refining.

• A high-grade seventh-rank pill and then a peak seventh-rank pill summoned pill lightning as the contest continued.
• The field narrowed to thirty-six finalists, all of whom had refined peak seventh-rank pills or better.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and the dark-skinned elder discussed Xiao Yan's reserved chance to receive the heavenly flame.
• Old Monster Qing Hua, Old Monster Yan, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and Old Monster Yun completed powerful eighth-tier pills, with Old Monster Yun producing three-colored pill lightning.
• Xiao Yan refined an eighth-tier pill with three-colored pill lightning, but Old Man Mu Gu then produced one with four-colored pill lightning.
• The Pill Tower Three Giants recognized Old Man Mu Gu as a Soul Hall alchemist, while Xuan Yi pointed out that Chen Xuan was still refining.