Chapter Summaries

Luo Zixi explained why he had not recruited servants for the Luo God Mountain Range, then received an invitation to the Pill Tower’s Pill Gathering. Xun'er stayed with him for the night and asked him to wait for her a little longer.

• Luo Zixi told Xun'er and the Gu Clan Venerable Elders that the mountain range was too vulnerable to an attack from the Soul Hall for him to recruit servants safely.
• Xun'er resolved to devote herself more fully to cultivation, while Luo Zixi said he wanted to become strong enough to face Gu Yuan.
• Yao Tianhuo bragged about his alchemy and gave Luo Zixi a red invitation from the Pill Tower to attend its Pill Gathering.
• Luo Zixi showed Xun'er and the two Gu Clan Venerable Elders around the mountain range, and the elders went to visit the top floor of the Burning Sky Refining Qi Tower.
• Luo Zixi took Xun'er to choose a palace, and later she asked him to wait for her a little longer.

Luo Zixi left the Luo God Mountain Range for Saint Pill City after Xun'er was ordered back to the Gu Clan. There, he met Xiao Yan and Ye Xinlan, whose Ye Clan faced poor prospects in the Pill Tower Seat Competition.

• Luo Zixi prepared to travel light, leaving his allies and puppets behind to protect the Luo God Mountain Range.
• Liu Ling knelt before Luo Zixi and presented the Gu Clan's Blood Jade Token, asking Xun'er to return home.
• Xun'er embraced Luo Zixi, said she was going home, and heard him promise to find her at the Gu Clan within a year.
• Luo Zixi and Yao Tianhuo reached Saint Pill City and encountered Xiao Yan with a group from the Ye Clan.
• Xiao Yan offered Luo Zixi a fiancée and dowry, while Ye Xinlan greeted Luo Zixi and lamented that the Ye Clan might again lose the Pill Tower Seat Competition.

Luo Zixi revealed his connection to the Luo God Mountain Range and became the Ye Clan’s alchemist candidate for the Pill Tower competition. After impressing the Ye Clan with his strength and alchemy, he dismissed a rare soul-enhancing powder as useless to him.

• Ye Xinlan explained that the Ye Clan needed Luo Zixi to help retain its place among the Five Great Families, and Luo Zixi offered her a chance to join his Pill Hall instead.
• Xiao Yan learned that Luo Zixi had founded the Luo God Mountain Range and recognized Yao Tianhuo, who revealed that he had been resurrected and become a mid-tier eighth-grade alchemist.
• Luo Zixi described himself as a peak nine-star Dou Zun and peak eighth-grade alchemist, astonishing the Ye Clan.
• Luo Zixi completed the mid-tier seventh-grade alchemist examination in under a minute and became the Ye Clan’s candidate for the competition.
• Yao Tianhuo showed Luo Zixi Soul Nurturing Dust Powder, but Luo Zixi said his Heaven Realm mid-tier Soul Power made it useless to him and suggested selling it through the Mission Hall.

At the Five Great Families’ assessment, Luo Zixi clashed with Cao Ying and her brother Cao Chen after Xiao Yan insulted Cao Ying and Cao Chen accused Luo Zixi of breaking the Cao and Ye Families’ marriage arrangement. Cao Ying chose to compete herself, setting up a contest against Luo Zixi.

• Luo Zixi learned that the Ye Family risked expulsion from the Council of Elders if it failed the assessment again.
• Cao Ying arrived with Cao Chen, and Xiao Yan’s careless remark provoked her to immobilize him with soul force.
• Luo Zixi pushed Cao Ying’s soul force aside, and she tested his bone age before deciding to enter the assessment herself.
• Cao Chen called Luo Zixi a homewrecker over the arranged marriage to Dan Chen, but Luo Zixi calmly mocked him and the Cao Family’s motives.
• Cao Ying stopped Cao Chen from escalating the quarrel, struck him when he continued to curse, and agreed to settle matters in the competition.

At the Pill Tower assessment, Luo Zixi edged Cao Ying by one point in both soul measurement and soul control, provoking her with his deliberate near-ties. Cao Ying demanded that Elder Sheng test Luo Zixi’s bone age, leaving the assessment in an unresolved confrontation.

• Elder Sheng began the five great families’ assessment with a Soul Value test, where Cao Ying set a record of 1520.
• Luo Zixi scored 1521, beating Cao Ying by exactly one point and surprising the gathered families.
• Elder Sheng started the Soul Control test, and Cao Ying broke her previous record by catching 136 Soul Measuring Pearls.
• Luo Zixi reported catching 137 pearls, prompting Cao Ying to realize he had deliberately surpassed her by one each time.
• Luo Zixi taunted Cao Ying about her temper, and she demanded that Elder Sheng test his bone age.

Luo Zixi defeated Cao Ying in the Soul Power assessment, then spent the evening in the Pill Tower’s Inner City with Xiao Yan. A chance encounter on neighboring balconies left Cao Ying embarrassed and arguing with Luo Zixi over his estimate of her figure.

• Elder Sheng confirmed Luo Zixi was twenty years old, and Luo Zixi crushed Cao Ying in their Soul Power contest.
• Luo Zixi teased and comforted the dazed Cao Ying before leaving with Xiao Yan and asking him to arrange their evening.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Zixi visited a massage parlor, where Xiao Yan went off with a female attendant while Luo Zixi declined the full service.
• Luo Zixi encountered Cao Ying on a neighboring balcony, and a breeze exposed them to each other.
• Cao Ying covered herself and claimed she was an E, while Luo Zixi insisted he had conservatively estimated her as at least a D.

Luo Zixi, Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying traded teasing remarks before the Saint Pill City competition, where Luo Zixi and Yao Tianhuo plotted to turn Soul Hall fighters into puppets. Xuan Kongzi opened the Illusion Soul Maze, and Luo Zixi, Yao Tianhuo, and Xiao Yan entered to qualify for the Pill Realm.

• Luo Zixi joked with Cao Ying and Xiao Yan after Xiao Yan returned from spending the night with a masseuse, and Cao Ying challenged Luo Zixi to settle their argument in the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan gave Luo Zixi the medicinal ingredients for Yao Chen's pill, and Luo Zixi agreed to refine it after the assessment.
• Xuan Kongzi spotted Xiao Yan and Luo Zixi at the Saint Pill City competition and considered Luo Zixi's reputation and alchemy skill.
• Yao Tianhuo proposed killing Soul Hall's Venerable Elders, but Luo Zixi suggested using them to make Heavenly Demon Puppets and offered Xiao Yan one.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the Illusion Soul Maze checkpoint, and Luo Zixi, Yao Tianhuo, and Xiao Yan entered the illusion to reach the Pill Realm.

Luo Zixi gathered rare medicinal treasures in the Pill Realm, then invited Cao Ying to travel with him through the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range. The two ended the day soaking in a medicinal hot spring and camping, while a Soul Hall elder began hunting the contestants.

• Luo Zixi landed on the Thousand-Year Earth Yellow Essence, crushed a contestant's Space Stone, and extracted the Earth Core Jade Marrow for Xiao Yan.
• Luo Zixi interrupted Song Qing's gathering with a thunderous entrance, knocked Song Qing unconscious, and offered Cao Ying herbs he had collected from the mountain range.
• Cao Ying accepted two herbs and joined Luo Zixi, who tossed Xiao Yan away before setting off with her.
• Luo Zixi and Cao Ying soaked in a medicinal hot spring, ate roasted magical beast, and made cabins for the night.
• A Soul Hall elder began hunting down the contestants and ordered his group to kill them all.

Luo Zixi rescued Xiao Yan from Old Man Mu Gu, captured the Soul Hall members’ souls, and refined their bodies into Heavenly Demon Puppets. He gave Xiao Yan a Four Star Dou Zun puppet and offered Cao Ying a Seven Star Dou Zun puppet.

• Cao Ying told Luo Zixi that her Soul Power and Dou Qi cultivation speed had improved after his medicinal bath, and he sensed that Xiao Yan was in trouble.
• Old Man Mu Gu trapped Xiao Yan and demanded his Heavenly Flames and Flame Mastery, but Luo Zixi arrived in time to catch the Black Demon Lightning and extract Mu Gu’s soul.
• Luo Zixi collected the other Soul Hall members’ souls and taught Cao Ying and Xiao Yan how to refine puppets.
• Luo Zixi refined Old Man Mu Gu’s body into a Nine Star Dou Zun puppet and gave Xiao Yan a Four Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Seeing Cao Ying’s interest, Luo Zixi offered her a Seven Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet, astonishing her.

Luo Zixi left the Pill Realm with Cao Ying and entered the Pill Tower Tournament’s final round, where he refined a Grade 8 Life Bone Blood Fusion Pill while a Soul Hall elder threatened him. After ten days, Dan Chen and Cao Ying completed their pills, and Cao Ying’s Heavenly Demon Puppet drew attention to Luo Zixi’s rising force.

• Song Qing emerged from the Pill Realm and confronted Luo Zixi, but a Heavenly Demon Puppet struck him away before he could approach Cao Ying.
• Luo Zixi and Cao Ying left the Pill Realm as the Pill Tower Tournament’s final round began, while Xiao Yan joined the Ye Clan’s cheering squad.
• Elder Liu found the injured Song Qing, who blamed Luo Zixi before fainting, and Elder Liu sent a soul message to the Song Clan head.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Luo Zixi, and a Soul Hall elder began refining pills, while the elder threatened Luo Zixi over Mu Gu’s death.
• After ten days, Dan Chen completed a Grade 8 Bodhi Marrow Refining Pill, and Cao Ying completed her pill as her Heavenly Demon Puppet blocked the four-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning.
• Spectators recognized Cao Ying’s puppet as one of the Heavenly Demon Puppets guarding the Luo God Mountain Range and learned that its hidden master had taken over Glacier Valley.

Luo Zixi refined a Half-Step Ninth-Tier Flesh Bone Rebirth Pill for Xiao Yan’s master, Yao Chen, while other alchemists completed their pills for the competition. After using the nine-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning to add a tenth pill pattern, Luo Zixi caught the pill as it tried to escape and declared it complete.

• Cao Ying used her seven-star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet to block the pill tribulation, while Venerable Qinghua and Nine Nether Venerable completed pills that drew three- and five-colored lightning.
• Luo Zixi finished refining the Flesh Bone Rebirth Pill, which drew nine bolts of Pill Tribulation Lightning and astonished Xiao Yan and Xuan Kongzi.
• Feng Xian and Yao Chen watched Luo Zixi’s success and discussed his talent, his new force, and Feng Xian’s concern that Luan'er might leave Starfall Pavilion to join him.
• Luo Zixi withstood the nine-colored lightning and used it to carve a tenth pattern into the pill, while his intermediate Heaven Realm Soul Power immobilized the crowd.
• Luo Zixi extinguished the Black Demon Lightning, caught the fleeing pill, and announced that the Half-Step Ninth-Tier Flesh Bone Rebirth Pill was complete.

Luo Zixi won the Pill Gathering with the spirit-bearing Flesh Bone Rebirth Pill and spent the night with Cao Ying, who suspected he was the sect master of the Luo God Mountain Range. At the Pill Tower, Yao Chen reunited with Xuan Yi, and Luo Zixi promised to kill any Soul Hall members who came for the Three Thousand Burning Flames.

• Xuan Kongzi declared Luo Zixi the Pill Gathering champion after his Flesh Bone Rebirth Pill overwhelmed the other pills, and awarded him an ancient soul cultivation method.
• Luo Zixi shared his medicinal bath formula with Cao Ying, who questioned whether he was the young sect master behind Glacier Valley's destruction; he asked her to become his sect master's wife, and they spent the night together.
• Luo Zixi brought Feng Xian and Yao Chen to the Pill Tower council hall, where Yao Chen reunited with Xuan Yi after emerging from the Storage Ring.
• Xuan Yi beat Feng Xian and Xuan Kongzi, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen watched; Cao Ying then moved to Luo Zixi's side.
• Luo Zixi said he would kill any Soul Hall members who came for the Three Thousand Burning Flames, and Feng Xian told Xuan Kongzi that Luo Zixi was stronger than all of them combined.

Luo Zixi entered the Star Domain to absorb Three Thousand Burning Flames, but first uncovered and killed the Soul Hall Venerable Elders who tried to sabotage him. He subdued and refined the flame, reaching Nine Star Dou Zun Ninth Revolution, and left the Star Domain to the congratulations of Cao Ying and the others.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei opened the Star Domain Gate, and Qiu Ling explained the Star Domain and Three Thousand Burning Flames to Luo Zixi and the other entrants.
• Luo Zixi caught a Soul Hall Venerable Elder preparing a black bead, seized it, and stopped two other contestants from throwing matching beads at Three Thousand Burning Flames.
• Luo Zixi discovered four more Soul Hall Venerable Elders among the group and pulled out their souls, while Qiu Ling realized Soul Hall had sent five Dou Zuns among the eleven entrants.
• Luo Zixi restrained Three Thousand Burning Flames and used Zi Yan's golden blood to forcefully refine it.
• After three hours, Luo Zixi absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flames, broke through three levels, and reached Nine Star Dou Zun Ninth Revolution.
• Cao Ying rushed to congratulate Luo Zixi, and Qiu Ling and the others came to their senses.

After reaching One Star Dou Sheng, Luo Zixi traveled with Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan to a ruin in the Beast Domain, where Xiao Yan obtained the Soul Infant Fruit. Xiao Yan planned to seek a Dou Zun-level body for Yao Chen, while Luo Zixi and his companions continued toward the ruins.

• Luo Zixi reached One Star Dou Sheng after three months and kept his new aura hidden.
• Mu Qingluan told Luo Zixi about a ruin in the Beast Domain, and he agreed to go with her and Zi Yan.
• Luo Zixi brought Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan to the Beast Domain through a spatial rift, where Mu Qingluan and Zi Yan bickered.
• Xiao Yan obtained the Soul Infant Fruit and used his Five Star Dou Zun puppet to knock out a Soul Hall member.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen that he wanted to find him a Dou Zun-level body, though Yao Chen doubted they could defeat a Dou Zun.

Luo Zixi reunited with Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, then entered a ruin with them and helped Zi Yan find a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit tied to her bloodline. Huang Xuan demanded the fruit but was subdued by Luo Zixi, and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion arrived to intervene.

• Luo Zixi appeared beside Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan eagerly greeted him while Yao Chen discussed his impending resurrection.
• Xiao Yan asked Luo Zixi to find Yao Chen a Dou Zun-level body, and Mu Qingluan rejoiced that Yao Chen was close to being resurrected.
• Zi Yan activated a golden vortex with her blood, and Luo Zixi, Mu Qingluan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen followed her into a ruin.
• Luo Zixi identified a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit connected to Zi Yan's bloodline and explained its rarity and power.
• Huang Xuan demanded the fruit, but Luo Zixi pinned him to the ground before Feng Qing'er and the Wind and Lightning Pavilion arrived.
• The Pavilion Master and Feng Qing'er approached Luo Zixi as he threatened to bleed Huang Xuan and pull out his tendons.

Luo Zixi secured rare ingredients, a Pill Beast, and intact Dou Saint remains from the ruins, then killed Star Plucking Old Ghost and seized the Soul Hall elders’ bodies and souls. He returned to Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan and the Soul Infant Fruit, ready to revive Yao Chen using the remains.

• Luo Zixi accepted rare medicinal ingredients from Thunder Revered One as compensation and recovered Huang Xuan.
• Luo Zixi took possession of the Pill Beast while keeping its identity hidden from the other factions.
• Luo Zixi stored the intact Dou Saint remains, and Xiao Yan claimed the ten peak Dou Zong puppets with his blood.
• Luo Zixi instantly killed Star Plucking Old Ghost, extracted the Soul Hall members’ souls, and took their bodies for puppet materials.
• Luo Zixi returned to Starfall Pavilion with Azure Luan, Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan announced that they had found the Soul Infant Fruit and Dou Saint remains needed to revive Yao Chen.

Luo Zixi and Xiao Yan attended the Gu Clan's coming-of-age ceremony, where Luo Zixi revealed his Three Star Dou Sheng cultivation and faced the Gu Clan's objections to his relationship with Xun'er. After Gu Zhen tried to intimidate him aboard the Shuttle Sky Boat, Luo Zixi unleashed an overwhelming pressure that caught Gu Yuan's attention.

• Luo Zixi and Xiao Yan arrived at Gu Saint City with invitations and brushed off Lin Xiu's attempt to assert authority over them.
• During their stay, Luo Zixi revealed to Xiao Yan that he had reached Three Star Dou Sheng, shocking him.
• Gu Xun welcomed the guests to the coming-of-age ceremony and guided them into the Gu World aboard the Shuttle Sky Boat.
• Gu Zhen questioned Luo Zixi about Xun'er and said the Gu Clan opposed marriage to outsiders because of its bloodline traditions.
• Gu Zhen pressured Luo Zixi with his Seven Star Dou Zun aura, but Luo Zixi answered that Gu Zhen would soon feel pressure of his own.
• Luo Zixi's overwhelming aura spread across the Shuttle Sky Boat, and Gu Yuan sensed it from within the Gu Clan.

Luo Zixi arrived in the Gu World as a Three Star Dou Sheng and challenged the Gu Clan by demanding to see Gu Dao. Gu Yuan and the Three Immortals learned that Luo Zixi was the young man who had burned Gu Dao’s beard, while Gu Nanhai continued to block Luo Zixi as the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Xun'er sensed a Dou Sheng’s pressure coming from the Shuttle Sky Boat, and Luo Zixi left the boat to face Gu Nanhai.
• Luo Zixi asked Gu Nanhai to summon Gu Dao, revealing that he had reached Three Star Dou Sheng cultivation; Xun'er recognized him with surprise and excitement.
• Gu Tian and Gu Mo discussed Luo Zixi’s strength with Gu Dao, who identified him as the young man who had burned his beard.
• Gu Yuan questioned how Luo Zixi could have advanced so quickly, and Gu Dao went to see the confrontation, warning that Luo Zixi was ruthless.
• Gu Nanhai remained in Luo Zixi’s way and worried that Luo Zixi might use underhanded tactics.

Luo Zixi reunited with Xun'er at the Gu Clan, where his Dou Sheng strength and Rank 9 alchemy skills stunned the clan and caught Gu Yuan’s approval. Gu Yuan began considering Luo Zixi a valuable son-in-law, though Xun'er’s marriage still depended on the clan leader’s wishes.

• Luo Zixi teased Gu Dao about the time he had burned off his beard, then revealed he had founded a faction and refined a Half Step Rank 9 Pill.
• Gu Dao told Luo Zixi that the clan leader would decide whether his relationship with Xun'er could work out, while Luo Zixi announced he would go see her.
• Luo Zixi reunited with Xun'er on the mountaintop, and the two Eight Star Dou Zun elders stepped back when they sensed his Dou Sheng strength.
• Gu Yuan watched Luo Zixi and Xun'er kiss, while Gu Yao and the other young Gu Clan geniuses realized they had no chance with her.
• At Xun'er's pavilion, Luo Zixi teased Xiao Yan about his past, then revealed Xiao Yan's achievements as a Rank 7 alchemist and Nine Star Dou Zong.
• Luo Zixi said he could refine Rank 9 Mystic Pills, prompting Gu Yuan to regard him as a valuable match for Xun'er and a boon to the Gu Clan.

At the Gu Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, Luo Zixi punched Canaan Academy headmaster Mang Tianchi after he loudly tried to recruit him for the Lei Clan with an offer of five female geniuses. As Gu Yao received a purple-gold Clan Rune, he questioned whether the Three Star Dou Sheng Luo Zixi was an old monster in disguise.

• Luo Zixi urged Xiao Yan to represent the Xiao Clan, and Mang Tianchi arrived and tried to recruit Luo Zixi for the Lei Clan.
• Luo Zixi punched Mang Tianchi into the Lei Clan’s area, and the Gu Clan elders began the coming-of-age ceremony.
• Gu Yao stepped forward for the bloodline test and received an eighth-grade result and a purple-gold Clan Rune.
• Xun'er explained that Clan Runes could temporarily strengthen their bearer after a month of nurturing.
• Gu Yao challenged Luo Zixi to state his age and accused him of possibly being an old monster preserving his youth.