Chapter Summaries

Ji Ruxue rejected Xuanyuan Liuyun’s advances and revealed a formidable Quasi-King pressure when he insulted the guests. Taishu Jing’s companions teased him about Ji Ruxue’s favorable impression of him, leaving him to wonder how he would face her later.

• Ji Ruxue refused Xuanyuan Liuyun’s gift and said she had no intention of finding a Dao Companion, inviting the guests to stay and listen to her zither.
• Xuanyuan Liuyun persisted and claimed he might give Ji Ruxue every sword form of the Xuanyuan Sacred Sword, prompting her to tell him to leave if he would not listen.
• When Xuanyuan Liuyun insulted the guests, Ji Ruxue rebuked him and unleashed Quasi-King pressure that overwhelmed his own.
• Little White asked Taishu Jing what he had said to Ji Ruxue, and he explained that he had advised her not to rejoice over external things or grieve over herself.
• Taishu Yun, Lan Xiyue, Ao Xiaoxiao, and Little White teased Taishu Jing about attracting other girls, and Little White affirmed that she loved him most.
• Little White reminded Taishu Jing that Ji Ruxue favored him, leaving him unsure why he would need to face her.

Taishu Jing saw through Little White, Taishu Yun, and Lan Xiyue’s prank about Ji Ruxue and Xuanyuan Liuyun. Ji Ruxue rejected Xuanyuan Liuyun and sent him away, while Ao Xiaoxiao grew irritated that he had admired Lan Xiyue and Little White but ignored her.

• Little White refused to intervene in Taishu Jing’s dealings with other girls, but Taishu Jing calmly said he saw Ji Ruxue only as a friend.
• Taishu Yun and Lan Xiyue revealed that they had staged the exchange to tease Taishu Jing, and Little White admitted she had played along.
• Ji Ruxue pressured Xuanyuan Liuyun, criticized his arrogance, and told him to leave after he defended his conduct and questioned her pride.
• Xuanyuan Liuyun left the Heavenly Maiden Pavilion after declaring that he would not give up, and he stared at Lan Xiyue and Little White as he passed.
• Ao Xiaoxiao complained that Xuanyuan Liuyun had stared at Lan Xiyue and Little White while ignoring her, and Lan Xiyue and Little White stopped Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun from teasing her.

Taishu Jing and his companions listened to Ji Ruxue’s performance before she invited them to meet her privately. Ji Ruxue thanked Taishu Jing for helping her understand herself, and Little White suspected that Ji Ruxue had feelings for him.

• Ji Ruxue spotted Taishu Jing and his companions, then continued playing while they sat down to listen.
• Taishu Jing learned that Little White knew how to play the harp and asked her to perform for him someday.
• After the performance, Ji Ruxue invited Taishu Jing and his companions to meet her in a guest room.
• Taishu Jing congratulated Ji Ruxue on becoming Heavenly Maiden, and Lan Xiyue praised her progress.
• Ji Ruxue credited Taishu Jing with helping her understand herself, then flusteredly denied having feelings for him.
• Little White noticed Ji Ruxue’s affection for Taishu Jing and confronted her about it.

Little White confronted Ji Ruxue about her feelings for Taishu Jing, and Taishu Jing tried to ease the awkwardness by offering her a precious Sword Origin Purple Crystal. Ji Ruxue refused the gift to avoid causing trouble between Taishu Jing and Little White, then invited everyone to sit for tea.

• Little White bluntly accused Ji Ruxue of harboring feelings for Taishu Jing, and Ji Ruxue repeatedly denied it.
• Lan Xiyue, Ao Xiaoxiao, and Taishu Yun recognized Ji Ruxue's distress and urged Taishu Jing to defuse the awkward situation.
• Taishu Jing offered Ji Ruxue a Half-step Emperor Grade Sword Origin Purple Crystal as a gift for becoming the Heavenly Maiden.
• Ji Ruxue identified the crystal's value as a Sword Dao treasure but refused it despite wanting it, unwilling to cause trouble between Taishu Jing and Little White.
• Ji Ruxue invited Taishu Jing and the others to sit and have tea.

Ji Ruxue tried to hide her affection for Taishu Jing and invited him and his companions to drink tea. Little White confronted her with a test to prove her feelings over time, leaving the two women facing off while Taishu Jing and the others watched.

• Ji Ruxue reflected on how Taishu Jing’s approval had awakened her feelings, then resolved not to confess because he already had a confidante.
• Ji Ruxue served Thousand-Night Tea and insisted that she regarded Taishu Jing and his companions as friends.
• Little White took the Sword Origin Purple Crystal and challenged Ji Ruxue to accept it, pass her test, and prove her heart with time before Little White would acknowledge her feelings for Jing.
• Ji Ruxue denied having romantic feelings for Taishu Jing, and her aura clashed with Little White’s as she refused to back down.
• Taishu Yun worried that the women might fight, but Lan Xiyue urged him to trust Little White and let events unfold.

Lan Xiyue warned Taishu Yun against flirting with other girls, while Little White surprised everyone by offering Ji Ruxue a chance to prove her feelings for Taishu Jing. Ji Ruxue’s hopes returned, and the others were left wondering why Little White had changed her mind.

• Lan Xiyue threatened Taishu Yun for joking about harassing other girls, and he promised to behave.
• Taishu Jing and Ao Xiaoxiao privately reacted to Lan Xiyue’s unexpectedly forceful side.
• Little White told Ji Ruxue that Taishu Jing had promised her a lifetime of devotion, leaving Ji Ruxue heartbroken.
• Little White changed her mind and offered Ji Ruxue a chance to prove she could stand with them over time.
• Taishu Jing tried to stop Little White, but she silenced him as Ao Xiaoxiao and Taishu Yun laughed at him.
• Lan Xiyue stopped Taishu Yun from teasing Taishu Jing, and Ao Xiaoxiao wondered why Little White had given Ji Ruxue a chance.

Little White offered Ji Ruxue the Sword Origin Purple Crystal as a test and asked Taishu Jing to accept Ji Ruxue’s feelings. The chapter ended with Ji Ruxue promising to prove herself and asking whether she could return if she advanced to the Dao Source Realm and achieved greatness.

• Little White offered Ji Ruxue the Sword Origin Purple Crystal, and Ji Ruxue overcame her hesitation to accept it as a test.
• Little White asked Taishu Jing to give Ji Ruxue a chance, explaining that Ji Ruxue’s feelings were genuine.
• Taishu Jing agreed because he could not refuse Little White, and Little White told Ji Ruxue to prove she could stand by his side.
• Ji Ruxue promised to prove herself and asked whether she could return if she reached the Dao Source Realm and achieved unparalleled greatness.

In the VIP room, Ji Ruxue declared her determination to become a Peerless King so she could pursue Taishu Jing, and Little White and the others encouraged her. Ji Ruxue gratefully accepted their support, while Taishu Jing realized that avoiding her feelings had been selfish.

• Ji Ruxue told Little White and the others she believed she could become a Peerless King after reaching the Dao Source Realm.
• Taishu Jing praised Ji Ruxue's confidence, and Little White told him to stop teasing her.
• Taishu Yun recognized Ji Ruxue's newly awakened potential and wished her success, while Lan Xiyue encouraged her to pursue her love.
• Ao Xiaoxiao questioned Taishu Jing's appeal, and Ji Ruxue blushed as she defended him.
• Little White said she and Taishu Jing agreed to Ji Ruxue's wish, and Taishu Jing apologized for pretending not to know about it.

Taishu Jing asked Taishu Yun for his opinion of Ji Ruxue, whose remarkable transformation had made her talented, independent, and blessed with great fortune. Taishu Yun joked that her greatest advantage was her beauty, leaving Taishu Jing embarrassed as the others gathered to ask what they had been discussing.

• Ao Xiaoxiao quietly asked Taishu Jing whether he liked Ji Ruxue, and he admitted he was unsure and was only trying to accept her at Little White's suggestion.
• Taishu Jing asked Taishu Yun what he thought of Ji Ruxue, and Taishu Yun praised her transformation, talent, independence, and good fortune.
• Taishu Yun called Ji Ruxue a stunning beauty, making Taishu Jing nearly duck under the table and Ao Xiaoxiao laugh and spray her tea.
• Little White and the others asked what had made them laugh, and Taishu Yun covered Ao Xiaoxiao's mouth before she could repeat his joke.

Little White brought Taishu Jing and Ji Ruxue together so they could address his reluctance to accept Ji Ruxue’s feelings. Taishu Jing apologized and promised to try, while Ji Ruxue planned to return to her family and become a Peerless King before finding him again.

• Lan Xiyue told Ao Xiaoxiao that Ji Ruxue had grown powerful and was ready to fulfill her potential.
• Little White confronted Taishu Jing about avoiding Ji Ruxue and placed Ji Ruxue’s hand in his.
• Taishu Jing apologized to Ji Ruxue and promised to respond to her feelings, while Little White reminded her to become a Peerless King.
• Ji Ruxue said she would return to her family, pursue becoming a Peerless King, and then come find Taishu Jing.
• Taishu Jing gave Ji Ruxue a Thousand Mechanisms Diagram that branded itself onto the back of her hand.

Taishu Jing gave Ji Ruxue a life-saving Dao Diagram before the Heavenly Maiden Pavilion was shaken by clashes among young True Kings and saintesses. As Tuoba Lie fought the Ghost Emperor Body in Star Heaven, Taishu Jing began to suspect the Ghost Emperor Body was connected to Nether Mountain.

• Taishu Jing gave Ji Ruxue a Dao Diagram that could save her life once, and she thanked him.
• A crash and blade intent erupted upstairs at the Heavenly Maiden Pavilion, where Tuoba Lie and the Ghost Emperor Body confronted each other as Dao Source Realm True Kings.
• Tuoba Lie challenged the Ghost Emperor Body to fight in Star Heaven, and the two began battling there.
• Wen Shihua defeated the Nine Yin Saintess, Huan Zhu, and Huan Zhu left after declaring she might win at the same realm.
• Taishu Jing suspected the Ghost Emperor Body might be tied to Nether Mountain and decided to watch him while seeking information.

The Ghost Emperor Body narrowly lost to Tuoba Lie, though Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun suspected he had deliberately concealed his strength. The next day, Taishu Jing traveled with Little White and the others to the alchemy competition, asking Little White to reject any future matchmaking attempts on his behalf.

• Tuoba Lie narrowly defeated the Ghost Emperor Body, who departed without revealing that he had suppressed his strength.
• Taishu Yun and Lan Xiyue left the Heavenly Maiden Pavilion, while Little White, Ji Ruxue, and Ao Xiaoxiao stayed the night with Taishu Jing keeping watch.
• The next day, Taishu Jing and the three women headed to the alchemy competition and he asked what they had whispered about the night before.
• Taishu Jing warned Little White not to agree to another proposal from Senior Tao Baikong, and Little White promised to refuse anyone who pursued him.

The third alchemy competition began, challenging the remaining alchemists to refine six-mark pills. Taishu Yun finished his first batch early and started another while the other competitors reached the critical stages of pill formation.

• Taishu Jing told Ao Jue that his brother Taishu Yun had high alchemy skills and was likely above the eight-mark level.
• Elder Song Qingsheng announced the start of the third competition, and pill formulas and ingredients were distributed to the alchemists.
• Taishu Yun received a six-mark pill formula, refined the pill with time to spare, and began refining a second batch.
• Taishu Jing and Ao Jue discussed the spectators’ fascination with the alchemists’ flames while Little White teased them.
• As the competition progressed, many alchemists reached the difficult stages of forming their six-mark pills and condensing their Pill Marks.

The third alchemy competition ended with fewer than six hundred alchemists qualifying, and the fourth round of refining Seven-Mark Pills began that afternoon with fewer than a hundred contestants. Taishu Yun drew attention by yawning and appearing to slack off, while the competition had yet to start.

• Song Qingsheng ended the third competition, and the appraisers determined that fewer than six hundred participants had reached the Six-pattern Alchemist standard.
• Song Qingsheng announced that the fourth round would require Seven-Mark Pills and told the contestants to rest before the afternoon competition.
• Fewer than a hundred alchemists gathered for the fourth round because refining Seven-Mark Pills required control of the Power of Laws.
• Taishu Yun yawned while waiting, prompting the audience and the Alchemy Master Guild's core elders to notice and discuss him.
• Taishu Jing called Taishu Yun a slacker from the window, drawing laughter, while Little White covered Taishu Jing's mouth to stop him from teasing further.

The fourth alchemy competition began on the Myriad Pill Platform, where alchemists used Law Flame and several revealed rare Earthly Fires. Taishu Yun refined his pill with ease, while Taishu Jing revealed that Yun had been able to refine Seven-Mark Pills soon after beginning to learn alchemy.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun bickered until Little White stopped Jing, and Honorary Elder Song Qingsheng announced the start of the fourth alchemy competition.
• The alchemists ignited their Law Flames to refine Seven-Mark Pills, displaying flames shaped by their individual understandings of the Dao.
• An alchemist from Nether Mountain revealed Specter Ghost Fire, prompting Taishu Jing to joke about a matching Charming Fiend fire, which Ao Jue confirmed existed.
• Several alchemists displayed other Earthly Fires, and Ao Jue explained that the flames helped compensate for alchemists' limited comprehension of the Power of Laws.
• Ao Jue remarked that Taishu Yun seemed too powerful for the competition, and Taishu Jing said Yun had refined Seven-Mark Pills just after he began learning alchemy.

Thirty-three alchemists passed the fourth pill-refinement competition and became Seven-pattern Alchemists, including members of the Dragon and Phoenix Clans. The Alchemy Master Guild announced a fifth competition to refine Eight-Mark Pills, and Taishu Yun and Huang Cai'er volunteered to participate.

• The evaluators announced the successful alchemists, including Gu Changle, Ao Xuefeng, Huang Cai'er, Chi Heng, Bai Xiaolan, and Ming Hao.
• Ao Jue and Feng Yuan celebrated their clans’ successes while Tao Baikong lamented that the Taotie Clan had no one advance.
• Song Qingsheng announced that thirty-three alchemists had passed and that the Guild would hold a fifth competition requiring Eight-Mark Pills.
• Song Qingsheng explained that refining an Eight-Mark Pill required awakened Primordial Power and invited the new Alchemy Dao Masters to register.
• Taishu Yun volunteered for the fifth competition, and Huang Cai'er followed him and agreed to participate.

Taishu Yun, Huang Cai'er, and several others entered the fifth alchemy competition, which the Alchemy Master Guild scheduled for the following morning. As the group discussed Taishu Jing’s formation skills, he agreed to restore the True Dragon Heavenly Palace’s formation when they returned.

• Taishu Yun, Huang Cai'er, and several others signed up for the fifth alchemy competition, which Song Qingsheng announced would take place the next morning.
• The audience speculated that the competition could produce a new Alchemy Dao Grandmaster, a rare figure capable of refining Eight-Mark Pills.
• Taishu Jing joked that he only knew cultivation, but Little White revealed that he had studied the formation dao while Taishu Yun studied alchemy.
• Ao Jue asked Taishu Jing to restore the True Dragon Heavenly Palace’s formation, and Taishu Jing agreed to rebuild its Eight-Turn Grand Formation.
• Taishu Jing teased Little White about her violent side, then grew embarrassed when she pointed out his sweet words in front of others.

On the third day of the Alchemy Master Grand Gathering, the final competition began with eight elite alchemists preparing to refine Eight-Mark Pills from Half-step Medicine Kings. Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun kept their embarrassing childhood secrets as mutual leverage, while the contest’s outcome remained unknown.

• Taishu Jing denied that Taishu Yun had said anything important, and Little White guessed that Yun had gained leverage over him.
• Taishu Yun told Lan Xiyue that he and Jing had not fought, while privately regretting their agreement to keep each other’s secrets.
• Song Qingsheng summoned the eight finalists to the Myriad Pill Platform and announced the start of the fifth alchemy competition.
• The contestants opened boxes containing one Half-step Medicine King each, surprising the spectators with the Alchemy Master Guild’s lavish provision.
• Taishu Jing and Ao Jue remarked that the guild had supplied Half-step Medicine Kings rather than true Medicine Kings, since the contest was meant to test whether a Grandmaster would emerge.

Taishu Yun refined a Half-step Medicine King into six pills and amazed the spectators with his speed and skill. As the pills took shape, everyone waited for their Pill Marks to condense.

• The alchemists began refining their Half-step Medicine Kings, while Taishu Yun quickly extracted the medicinal liquid from his ingredient.
• Taishu Yun purified the remaining ingredients, divided the liquid into six portions, and formed them into pills.
• The rich pill fragrance spread across the Myriad Pill Platform, and spectators and elders marveled at Taishu Yun's Alchemy Dao skill.
• Ao Jue praised Taishu Yun to Taishu Jing, while Ao Xiaoxiao decided to ask Lan Xiyue for Seven-Mark Pills.
• The six pills had taken shape, and the spectators watched for their Pill Marks to appear.

Taishu Yun completed six Eight-Mark Pills, and their fragrance caused low-level cultivators in the audience to break through. Ao Jue learned that animals had appeared in Taishu Jing and Little White’s Small Worlds in less than thirty days, far faster than any recorded Peerless King, and the chapter ended with him baffled by their strength and cultivation.

• Ao Jue warned Ao Xiaoxiao not to rely on pills to raise her cultivation, and Taishu Jing cautioned her against seeking shortcuts.
• Taishu Yun’s six pills formed eight Pill Marks each and reached perfection, while their fragrance helped low-level cultivators break through.
• Taishu Jing told Ao Jue that Little White had given the pills he had shared with her to animals in her Small World.
• Ao Jue was astonished that animals had appeared in Taishu Jing and Little White’s Small Worlds in less than thirty days, far faster than the recorded Peerless King record of one hundred and fifty years.
• Taishu Jing said they had never claimed to be Peerless Kings, and Ao Jue conceded that their strength surpassed what he expected from Peerless Kings.