Recaps

Chen Xuan absorbed the energy of four Dou Zun experts and reached the peak of Nine-star Dou Zong before returning to Blazing Flame Valley. There, he discovered Gu Clan visitors had come seeking Chen Ping, and he stayed away after Tang Zhen agreed to hand him over if he returned.

• Chen Xuan refined the energy of four Dou Zun experts, advancing from Four-star Dou Zong to the peak of Nine-star Dou Zong.
• Chen Xuan searched for Xiao Yan but could not learn where he had gone, then returned toward Blazing Flame Valley and heard that their battle had shaken the Pill Region.
• Chen Xuan saw five visitors waiting outside Blazing Flame Valley, including four Dou Zun experts and one whose strength was beyond his perception.
• Tang Zhen met the visitors and learned they wanted Chen Ping because he had killed their people; he initially vowed to protect Blazing Flame Valley's Guest Elder.
• The leader revealed himself as a Dou Sheng from the Gu Clan and threatened to destroy Blazing Flame Valley unless it handed over Chen Ping.
• Tang Zhen agreed to notify the Gu Clan when Chen Ping returned, and Chen Xuan decided to stay away from Blazing Flame Valley and seek information.

Unable to return to Blazing Flame Valley without alerting the Gu Clan, Chen Xuan attacked Glacier Valley to seize control of Bing He and use the valley to provoke a war with Blazing Flame Valley. After defeating Bing He and badly injuring Glacier Valley’s experts, Chen Xuan led the wounded Valley Master inside to negotiate.

• Chen Xuan decided to lure Tang Zhen out by controlling Glacier Valley and provoking it into war with Blazing Flame Valley.
• Chen Xuan attacked Glacier Valley’s barrier, drawing out Xue Hai and the valley’s elders.
• Chen Xuan used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and the Berserk skill to overwhelm Xue Hai, but Bing He intervened and shattered Chen Xuan’s Ice Dragon.
• Bing He attacked Chen Xuan with black snowflakes and dragons, but Chen Xuan used his Emerald Green Flame to defend himself.
• Bing He ordered the elders to attack, so Chen Xuan swallowed a Violent Origin Pill and unleashed the Emperor Spear Art, gravely injuring Bing He and devastating Glacier Valley’s forces.
• Chen Xuan told Bing He he would spare Glacier Valley if its people obeyed, then entered the valley with Bing He following him.

Chen Xuan forced Bing He and Glacier Valley’s elders to submit, then used them to seize Cracked Rock City and lure Tang Zhen into a trap. Blazing Flame Valley mobilized its forces, and its experts arrived at Cracked Rock City as Bing He waited on the city wall.

• Chen Xuan demanded Bing He and the Glacier Valley elders submit, then used Puppet Jade Talismans to ensure their loyalty.
• Chen Xuan planned to draw Tang Zhen out of Blazing Flame Valley and set up a Dragon Trapping Array in Cracked Rock City.
• Bing He led Glacier Valley’s experts in taking control of Cracked Rock City and declaring it theirs.
• Tang Zhen ordered Blazing Flame Valley’s forces to prepare for war and set out for Cracked Rock City.
• Chen Xuan assigned Bing He to lure Tang Zhen into the array as Blazing Flame Valley’s experts approached.

Blazing Flame Valley and Glacier Valley clashed, while Bing He lured Tang Zhen into Chen Xuan’s Dragon Trapping Array. Chen Xuan defeated and captured Tang Zhen, then escaped with him as an old man arrived.

• Tang Zhen and Bing He began fighting as Blazing Flame Valley and Glacier Valley’s experts battled around them.
• Tang Zhen gained the upper hand, and Bing He retreated toward the Dragon Trapping Array as planned with Chen Xuan.
• The Dragon Trapping Array suppressed Tang Zhen’s strength, and Chen Xuan attacked him with the Godslayer Spear.
• Chen Xuan severely injured Tang Zhen, sealed his power, and escaped with him using an Advanced Teleportation Jade Talisman.
• An old man emerged from a spatial rift after Chen Xuan departed, then entered the rift again.

Chen Xuan escaped with Tang Zhen and revealed that he wanted the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire. After refining Tang Zhen and taking control of the flame, Chen Xuan began fusing it with the Emerald Green Flame.

• Bing He ordered Glacier Valley's people to retreat after a Dou Saint appeared, while Chen Xuan escaped with Tang Zhen using teleportation talismans.
• Chen Xuan sealed Tang Zhen inside a secluded cave and revealed his identity, confronting Tang Zhen over Blazing Flame Valley's plan to hand him to the Gu clan.
• Chen Xuan explained that he wanted Tang Zhen's Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire and showed him that he already possessed the Azure Nether Flame Art.
• Chen Xuan transformed into his true form, swallowed Tang Zhen, refined him, and stripped out the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire's origin.
• Chen Xuan used the Azure Nether Flame Art to control the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire, then began fusing it with the Emerald Green Flame, which started consuming the other flame and its Blood Soul Imprints.

Blazing Flame Valley learned from Gu Qingyang that Chen Xuan had captured Tang Zhen and sought the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire. After refining the Heavenly Flame and advancing to Two-star Dou Zun, Chen Xuan received information about Three Thousand Burning Flame, which was held in the Pill Tower’s Star Domain.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun questioned Blazing Flame Valley’s elders about Chen Xuan and learned that Gu Clan experts had arrived.
• Gu Qingyang told Old Ancestor Huoyun that Chen Xuan was a magical beast from the Northwest Continent who had killed two Gu Clan elders and likely captured Tang Zhen for the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire.
• Gu Qingyang offered to share the Gu Clan’s findings and assistance, then left Blazing Flame Valley.
• Chen Xuan finished devouring the Nine Dragon Heavenly Gang Fire, reached Two-star Dou Zun, and transformed his Emerald Green Flame into glass-colored flames containing nine tiny fire dragons.
• The system gave Chen Xuan information about Three Thousand Burning Flame, which was located in the Star Domain and controlled by Pill Tower experts.

Chen Xuan traveled to Holy Pill City to enter the Pill Gathering and compete for a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After obtaining an eighth-grade alchemist badge, he set up a stall at the trade fair and drew a crowd with his rare pills and medicinal herbs.

• Chen Xuan learned that the Pill Gathering’s top ten would get a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, so he traveled toward Shengdan City.
• After four days through the spatial wormhole, Chen Xuan arrived in Holy Pill City and marveled at the enormous, crowded plaza.
• Chen Xuan disguised himself as a silver-haired old man, passed the Pill Tower’s test, and received an eighth-grade alchemist badge.
• Chen Xuan went to the alchemist trade fair and paid for a stone stall on the second floor.
• Chen Xuan displayed rare pills and medicinal herbs, including a Three-Revolving Divine Soul Pill and Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Ginseng, attracting a crowd of astonished and greedy alchemists.

Chen Xuan drew a crowd at the second-floor trading fair by offering rare medicinal herbs and pills for Gold Coins only, prompting factions and Pill Tower alchemists to rush to gather money. As the gathering grew, Chen Xuan spotted Xiao Yan among the crowd.

• Chen Xuan announced that he would sell his rare herbs and pills for Gold Coins rather than barter, and the crowd reacted with astonishment.
• Chen Xuan set the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Ginseng’s starting price at five hundred million Gold Coins, but no one present could pay immediately.
• Chen Xuan quoted two hundred million Gold Coins for the Saint Origin Pill and ten million per Violent Origin Pill, then sold three Violent Origin Pills for ninety million Gold Coins.
• News of Chen Xuan’s stall spread through Holy Pill City, bringing factions and powerful Pill Tower alchemists to the trading fair to seek his rare items.
• Chen Xuan noticed Xiao Yan among the crowd.

Chen Xuan’s Three-Revolving Divine Soul Pill drew fierce bids from the Pill Region’s major families and the Pill Tower, eventually selling to Xuan Kongzi for 2.5 billion Gold Coins. Xuan Kongzi then asked Chen Xuan to name his price for the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Ginseng.

• Chen Xuan guarded his stall as major forces gathered to bid for his Three-Revolving Divine Soul Pill.
• The Cao Clan, Dan Clan, Bai Clan, and other families raised the pill’s price to one billion Gold Coins.
• Xuan Kongzi bid on behalf of the Pill Tower, but a mysterious old man challenged him and drove the price higher.
• Xuan Kongzi outbid the mysterious man at 2.5 billion Gold Coins, and Chen Xuan handed over the verified pill in exchange for payment.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Chen Xuan for the price of the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Ginseng.

Chen Xuan auctioned rare treasures and forty Saint Origin Pills to powerful Central Plains factions, driving the bids far beyond their starting prices. He left the trade fair with a huge fortune in Gold Coins.

• Chen Xuan set the minimum price for the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Ginseng at five hundred million Gold Coins, and Xuan Kongzi bid for it on behalf of the Pill Tower.
• A mysterious old man pushed the price up to one billion seven hundred million Gold Coins before withdrawing, and Xuan Kongzi bought the ginseng for two billion.
• Chen Xuan offered Saint Origin Pills at a minimum of one hundred million Gold Coins each and revealed that he had forty available.
• The mysterious old man tried to buy all forty, but the factions began bidding against him, and Xuan Kongzi bought six at three hundred million Gold Coins apiece.
• The mysterious old man secured only twenty Saint Origin Pills, while other factions paid as much as five hundred million Gold Coins per pill.

Chen Xuan entered the Pill Realm for the Pill Gathering, intent on finding Xiao Yan while hiding his identity. After finding an Earth Yang Fruit, he was surrounded by five competitors who demanded it, and he threatened the woman leading them.

• Chen Xuan passed the Environment Challenge with his powerful soul force and reached the Pill Realm entrance, where he saw Xiao Yan among the other qualifiers.
• A Pill Tower elder explained that participants had ten days to collect herbs from their task lists, warned them of powerful magical beasts, and gave each a map and a Space Stone.
• Chen Xuan entered the Pill Realm after Xiao Yan but was teleported to a different location, so he changed his appearance and set off toward the exit while searching for him.
• Chen Xuan found an Earth Yang Fruit on a hill and dug it up, recognizing its value for fire-attributed cultivators.
• A young woman in black and four young men surrounded Chen Xuan and demanded the Earth Yang Fruit; Chen Xuan refused and threatened the woman.

Chen Xuan overwhelmed Song Qing and his companions after they tried to take his Earth Yang Fruit, then abducted Cao Ying. A young man in black arrived afterward and wondered who the young Dou Zun was.

• Song Qing and the woman in black demanded Chen Xuan’s Earth Yang Fruit and attacked him with their three companions.
• Chen Xuan sealed the area with his spatial power and effortlessly shattered all five attackers’ techniques.
• Song Qing and the other three men begged for mercy, but Chen Xuan froze and killed them despite Song Qing invoking his grandfather’s position in the Pill Tower.
• Chen Xuan forced the woman in black to reveal that her name was Cao Ying, then seized her and left.
• A young man in black arrived and wondered who the unusually young Dou Zun was.

The Pill Tower's Great Elder learned that Chen Xuan had killed his grandson Song Qing and vowed revenge, while Chen Xuan traveled to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. There, he found Old Man Mugū attacking Xiao Yan for his Heavenly Flames, and Zi Yan arrived to intervene.

• The Great Elder learned that Song Qing had been killed and demanded that the Pill Tower avenge him.
• Chen Xuan left Cao Ying after forcing her to take a pill, then traveled toward the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range while seeking news of Xiao Yan.
• Chen Xuan entered the mountain range and sensed Old Man Mugū fighting Xiao Yan and his companions.
• Chen Xuan learned that Old Man Mugū wanted Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames and decided to prevent him from taking Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan appeared and warned Old Man Mugū that he could not kill Xiao Yan, surprising Xiao Yan, Old Man Mugū, and Chen Xuan.

Zi Yan reunited with Xiao Yan in the Pill Realm and ordered Xiong Zhan to protect him from Old Man Mugū. As their battle escalated, Chen Xuan watched from hiding and identified Xiong Zhan as a powerful Ancient Dragon Bear, choosing to wait before making his move.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that she had sneaked into the Pill Realm to meet him and introduced Xiong Zhan as the boss of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Xiong Zhan refused Old Man Mugū's demand to stay out of his attempt to capture Xiao Yan and told him to leave the mountain.
• Old Man Mugū attacked Xiong Zhan with a crystal-layered hand, and Xiong Zhan met the blow with a powerful punch.
• Old Man Mugū unleashed his Netherworld Demonic Flame Arm, and Xiong Zhan answered with a mountain-powered strike that shook the surrounding area.
• Chen Xuan saw Xiong Zhan reveal his enormous bear form and recognized him as an Ancient Dragon Bear before deciding to keep watching.

Chen Xuan ambushed Xiao Yan after Old Man Mugū withdrew, overwhelming Xiong Zhan and Zi Yan when they tried to protect him. Xiao Yan recognized Chen Xuan as the young Dou Zun who had killed Song Qing, while the fight remained unresolved.

• Xiong Zhan fought Old Man Mugū, who withdrew rather than spend his strength before the Pill Gathering.
• Xiong Zhan learned Xiao Yan was a seventh-tier high-grade alchemist, then discovered Chen Xuan hiding nearby.
• Chen Xuan revealed his Two-star Dou Zun strength, activated Berserk, and charged at Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan transformed into a young woman as Xiong Zhan returned to his true form and moved to protect Xiao Yan.
• Chen Xuan shattered Xiong Zhan's arm with a punch and sent Zi Yan flying when she attacked him.
• Xiao Yan fled to a safe distance and recognized Chen Xuan as the Dou Zun who had killed Song Qing.

Chen Xuan attacked Xiao Yan, overwhelming Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan and neutralizing Xiao Yan’s Four-Colored Fire Lotus. Xiao Yan escaped with a Space Stone, and Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan vanished with a transparent stone, leaving Chen Xuan furious and wondering who Zi Yan was.

• Chen Xuan badly injured Xiong Zhan and forced Xiao Yan to flee while Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan stayed behind to hold him off.
• Xiao Yan fused a Four-Colored Fire Lotus and launched it at Chen Xuan, who contained it inside a giant ice lotus.
• Chen Xuan’s azure storms defeated Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan, sending both flying with severe injuries.
• Zi Yan urged Xiao Yan to escape, and Xiao Yan crushed a Space Stone to vanish from the battlefield.
• Zi Yan crushed a transparent stone after telling Xiong Zhan to return to human form, and the two disappeared before Chen Xuan.

After leaving the Pill Realm, Chen Xuan joined the contestants for the Pill Gathering’s final round, while the Pill Tower investigated Song Qing’s murder and Xiao Yan’s disappearance from the competition. The final contest began as the alchemists took their places on the floating platforms.

• Xiao Yan told the Pill Tower’s elders that a young-looking Dou Zun had killed Song Qing and abducted Cao Ying, and Xuan Kongzi ordered the Pill Tower to watch the competitors for the murderer.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Xiao Yan to help investigate after explaining that he had lost his right to compete; Xiao Yan agreed despite his frustration at being eliminated.
• Disguised as the old man Mo, Chen Xuan left the Pill Realm and handed in his task list and medicinal herbs at the exit.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the contestants who passed the second selection would compete on the floating stone platforms for the Pill Gathering championship.
• The contestants rose to the platforms after Xuan Kongzi invited them to refine the pills they were most skilled at.

Chen Xuan competed in the Pill Gathering and drew attention with his unknown crimson-blue Heavenly Flame. On the tenth day, he refined a pill that summoned six-colored pill lightning, leaving the contestants and Pill Tower officials stunned.

• Chen Xuan chose a stone platform and decided to refine a Saint Origin Pill as Xuan Kongzi began the competition.
• Chen Xuan released his Crimson Blue Flame, which startled the other alchemists and puzzled Xiao Yan and Xuan Kongzi, who could not identify it.
• While the alchemists refined pills, Xiao Yan and Xuan Kongzi searched for a disguised seven-star Dou Zun among the contestants but found no clear suspect.
• After eight days of refining, contestants began completing Grade 7 and Grade 8 pills, and Cao Ying and a mysterious man in black summoned colored pill lightning.
• Chen Xuan completed his pill and summoned six-colored pill lightning, shocking the crowd as the mysterious man in black lost confidence in his chances of winning.

Chen Xuan endured the Six-Colored Pill Lightning with his strength as a Two-star Dou Zun and completed a Saint Origin Pill. He won the Pill Gathering, leaving him poised to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Chen Xuan calmly faced the Six-Colored Pill Lightning as the alchemists and Pill Tower leaders watched.
• Chen Xuan shattered the first bolt with a lightning-infused punch, revealing that he possessed both fire-attribute and lightning-attribute Dou Qi.
• Xuan Kongzi questioned Xiao Yan about Chen Xuan, and Xiao Yan concluded that Chen Xuan was not the Dou Zun they had encountered in the Pill Realm.
• Chen Xuan endured the successive bolts of pill lightning without serious injury while other alchemists struggled and some had their cauldrons smashed.
• Chen Xuan completed a Saint Origin Pill, and Xuan Kongzi announced him as the Pill Gathering champion, naming him Chen Haorong.

Chen Xuan entered the Star Domain with the Pill Gathering finalists to try to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After the flame rejected him and everyone else failed, Old Man Mugū stepped forward, claiming he would demonstrate another method.

• Chen Xuan and the other finalists entered the Star Domain under Qiu Ling's supervision and followed him to the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qiu Ling chose Chen Xuan, the Pill Gathering champion, to make the first attempt at subduing the sleeping flame.
• Chen Xuan sent his soul power into the flame, but its Little Fire Dragon mocked him and drove his soul away with purple-black flames.
• The other finalists, including Old Man Mugū, also failed to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Qiu Ling prepared to take everyone out of the Star Domain.
• Old Man Mugū laughed at Qiu Ling and announced that he would demonstrate how to subdue the flame.

Old Man Mugū shattered Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal and called in Hall of Souls reinforcements, but the awakened Heavenly Flame refused to honor their agreement. Chen Xuan trapped the combatants in powerful arrays, swallowed the Pill Tower and Hall of Souls experts, and turned toward Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Flame.

• Old Man Mugū broke the dragon scale sealing Three Thousand Burning Flame, awakening the flame and weakening the runes that restrained it.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free, rejected Old Man Mugū’s offer, and fought the Hall of Souls elders after they arrived and bound it with their arrays.
• Old Man Mugū moved to extract Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Flame, but the flame released its Origin Flame and wounded him, creating an opening for Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan activated the Dragon Trapping Grand Array and Immortal Slaying Sword Array, suppressing everyone’s strength and blocking the others from interfering.
• Chen Xuan transformed into his true form and swallowed Old Man Mugū, Qiu Ling, and the other experts before turning to Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Flame.

Chen Xuan devoured Three Thousand Burning Flame, raising his strength to six-star Dou Zun, then left the Star Domain to face the Pill Tower’s assembled experts. After admitting he had killed Qiu Ling and the others, he fought Xuan Kongzi and struck toward Xiao Yan, but a Dou Saint intervened as Chen Xuan continued his attempt to seize him.

• Xuan Kongzi entered the Star Domain, found a glass-colored Heavenly Flame suppressing Three Thousand Burning Flame, and fled when four giant swords attacked him.
• Xuan Kongzi alerted the Pill Tower, while Chen Xuan devoured and fused Three Thousand Burning Flame, reaching six-star Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan left the Star Domain and told Xuan Kongzi that he had killed Qiu Ling and the others.
• Xuan Kongzi attacked Chen Xuan, who used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and his Berserk skill before shattering Xuan Kongzi’s giant hand with the Godslayer Spear.
• Chen Xuan attacked Xuan Kongzi as he tried to reach Xiao Yan, blasting both men away and severely injuring Xiao Yan.
• A Dou Saint appeared as Chen Xuan charged toward Xiao Yan, determined to seize him.

Chen Xuan swallowed Xiao Yan, then used a Dou Sheng Experience Card to overwhelm the Pill Tower experts and devour the Great Elder with the Godslayer Spear. After the spear unsealed, Chen Xuan escaped through a spatial passage with Xiao Yan, leaving witnesses to fear the repercussions across the Central Plains.

• Chen Xuan transformed and swallowed Xiao Yan, then took a heavy blow from a Two-star Dou Sheng who sealed the surrounding space.
• Chen Xuan refused to surrender Xiao Yan and bought and used an intermediate Dou Sheng Experience Card, gaining Five-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Chen Xuan attacked the Great Elder and Xuan Kongzi with Heaven-Splitting; the strike shattered their combined defense, incapacitated them, and killed several Pill Tower experts.
• Chen Xuan pierced the Great Elder with the Godslayer Spear, which devoured the Great Elder's blood essence and soul and became fully unsealed.
• Tian Leizi rescued Xuan Kongzi as the Pill Tower experts fled, while Chen Xuan took Xiao Yan through a spatial passage and vanished.

Chen Xuan refined Xiao Yan, absorbed his three Heavenly Flames, and reached eight-star Dou Zun before deciding to return to the Northwest Continent. Meanwhile, Medusa’s newborn daughter awakened the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline, and Medusa drove off two Soul Hall attackers who tried to seize the child.

• Chen Xuan devoured and fused Xiao Yan’s three Heavenly Flames, raising his strength from six-star to eight-star Dou Zun.
• Chen Xuan examined Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring, kept a mysterious jade pendant, and prepared to return to the Northwest Continent to confront Jia Nan Academy.
• A messenger told Xiao Xun’er that Xiao Yan was dead, and she erupted in grief and killing intent.
• Medusa’s newborn daughter underwent a nine-colored baptism that awakened the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Two Soul Hall agents attacked the Snake People Race tribe and demanded Medusa surrender her child.
• Medusa and the Snake People Race experts defeated the attackers, who fled, and Medusa ordered her people to remain inside the tribe.

Chen Xuan returned to the Snake People Race tribe and met his daughter, whom Medusa had given birth to while he was away. He named her Chen Nannan, but his attempts to bond with her were repeatedly rebuffed, and Medusa finally drove him from the bedchamber.

• Chen Xuan returned to the Snake People Race tribe, where the Great Elder told him that Medusa had already handled a recent incident.
• Chen Xuan hurried to Medusa’s bedchamber and met their silver-haired baby daughter, who wiped away his kiss and reached for Medusa instead.
• Medusa scolded Chen Xuan for being away so long, and he claimed he had been working for their child’s future.
• Chen Xuan named the baby Chen Nannan and praised her immense potential, which Medusa attributed partly to the Bloodline Pill and cleansing ritual.
• Chen Xuan tried to embrace and kiss Medusa, but Chen Nannan began crying, so Medusa sent him out.