Chapter Summaries

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.

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.