Chapter Summaries

The Ye Clan awaited the birth of Lan'er and Ye Zhong's first child while the dying Ye Family Old Ancestor, Ye Xun, lamented that he might not live to see the clan regain its former glory. The child was born amid strange changes in the sky, and Ye Zhong's wife hurried to congratulate Chun'er on delivering a legitimate son.

• Ye Zhong and the family waited anxiously as Chun'er labored, while his younger sister reported that the birth was progressing normally.
• Ye Xun told Ye Zhong that the newborn would be the Ye Clan's eldest legitimate son and entrusted the clan's future restoration to him.
• The sky over Ye City darkened, the hidden stars shone brightly, and a streak of white light fell toward the city's center.
• Chun'er gave birth to a boy, and the maidservants rushed to announce the birth to the Family Head.
• Ye Zhong's wife entered the room, urged Chun'er to rest, and praised her for giving the Ye Clan a legitimate son.

Ye Chen regretted revealing his extraordinary intelligence as a child because it had earned him a tedious regimen of memorizing medicinal texts. That night, he reflected on the Star Vein Diagram within him and its powers, while its image remained unmanifested.

• Ye Chen struggled to memorize the Medicinal Scripture until Song Chun'er arrived and teased him.
• Song Chun'er told Ye Chen about her interest in finding a husband for his little aunt, while Ye Chen recalled how his precocious talents had made the Ye Family treat him as a prodigy.
• Ye Chen remembered that Ye Zhong had taken him to the Ye Family Old Ancestor, who had ordered him to study medicinal texts after he showed off his abilities.
• After Song Chun'er left, Ye Chen sat beneath the starlight and entered the Star Vein Diagram within his body.
• Ye Chen considered how the diagram could absorb Star Power, strengthen his abilities by lighting Star Souls, and unlock skills through manifested images and connected Star Palaces.

Over three years, Ye Chen developed his Star Vein abilities and reached Five Stage Dou Qi at age five, astonishing the Ye Family. He set his sights on entering the Pill Tower and obtaining Three Thousand Burning Flame, then was summoned to the Pill Chamber by the Family Head.

• Ye Chen reflected on his Fire and Wood Hidden Star Souls, his potential as an alchemist, and his questions about the Ye Family and Xiao Yan.
• Over three years, Ye Chen accumulated 65 points of Star Vein and spent 60 to awaken his first two Star Souls.
• Ye Chen planned to enter the Pill Tower as a Core Disciple so he could pursue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Ye Chen's attributes helped him reach Five Stage Dou Qi in less than half a year, prompting Ye Zhong to examine him because rapid cultivation could harm his young body.
• A maid told Ye Chen that the Family Head wanted him in the Pill Chamber, and Ye Chen wondered why he had been summoned.

At the Ye Family’s Soul Power assessment, five-year-old Ye Chen tested at an astonishing Soul Value of 150, exceeding the threshold for a Third Grade Alchemist. His result convinced Ye Zhong that Ye Chen could help save the family.

• Ye Zhong began the Ye Family’s assessment and explained that the test measured Soul Power rather than Dou Qi.
• Ye Ling scored a Soul Value of 32, and the other young clan members took turns being tested, with most showing alchemist potential but none possessing talent above the Seventh Grade.
• Ye Zhong called Ye Chen forward as the final and youngest candidate.
• Ye Chen placed his hand on the testing crystal, which displayed a Soul Value of 150.
• The stunned clan members recognized that Ye Chen had met the threshold for a Third Grade Alchemist, and Ye Zhong felt his worries lift.

After more than a year of intensive training under Ye Xun, seven-year-old Ye Chen reached Nine Stage Dou Qi and asked to practice refining medicinal materials. He revealed his Star Fire to persuade Ye Xun, who agreed to supervise his first attempt at alchemy.

• Ye Zhong ended the Soul Power test and sent Ye Chen to find his mother, while Song Chun'er and Ye Chen's father proudly spread news of his talent.
• Ye Chen began living under Ye Xun's supervision, studying medicinal properties and techniques while cultivating in medicinal baths each night.
• More than a year later, Ye Chen reached Nine Stage Dou Qi, and Ye Xun urged him to strengthen his foundation instead of rushing to condense a Dou Qi Vortex.
• Ye Chen focused on collecting Star Essence and asked Ye Xun to let him practice refining medicinal materials.
• Ye Chen revealed the silver-white Star Fire within his palm, and Ye Xun agreed to supervise him as he began practicing with a Red Beast-Pattern Medicine Cauldron.

Ye Chen began learning alchemy under the Ye Family Old Ancestor, using Starfire to practice extracting ingredients for Blood Coagulation Powder. After repeated failures and a short rest, Ye Chen left the cauldron room, and Ye Zhong emerged from the shadows.

• The Ye Family Old Ancestor guided Ye Chen as he prepared the medicine cauldron and controlled the Starfire.
• The Ye Family Old Ancestor gave Ye Chen a First Grade Healing Medicine prescription for Blood Coagulation Powder and explained its ingredients and requirements.
• Ye Chen burned his first stalk of Blood Coagulation Grass after briefly letting his concentration slip, then tried again.
• Ye Chen failed to extract most of the Blood Coagulation Grass over more than ten attempts, and the Ye Family Old Ancestor advised him to rest.
• Ye Chen left to recover, and Ye Zhong stepped out from the shadows after watching him practice.

Ye Chen realized that his crude Soul Power control was holding back his medicinal-material refining, and returned to the alchemy room to keep practicing. Ye Zhong gave him the Ye family’s Flame Control Art, while Ye Xun’s failing health and reliance on the Boiling Blood Pill left Ye Zhong with a grave promise to fulfill.

• Ye Chen reviewed his failed refining attempts and decided to prioritize practicing Soul Power control.
• Ye Chen rushed back to the alchemy room, where the Ye Family Old Ancestor and Ye Zhong told him to stop refining for the day.
• Ye Zhong gave Ye Chen a Red Scroll containing the Ye family’s Flame Control Art, and Ye Chen hurried off to study it.
• Ye Xun coughed blood and swallowed a Boiling Blood Pill, whose effect was beginning to fail.
• Ye Xun asked Ye Zhong to raise Ye Chen into a true talent at any cost after his death, and Ye Zhong promised to do so.

Ye Chen spent half a year perfecting his Nine Stage Dou Qi so he could break through to Dou Zhe. With Ye Xun’s Qi Gathering Powder, he successfully condensed a Dou Qi Vortex.

• Ye Chen failed to shape a stable Resisting Fire Ring and decided to prioritize strengthening his Dou Qi.
• Over the next half year, Ye Chen balanced alchemy and Fire Control Skill practice with extra Dou Qi cultivation until his Nine Stage Dou Qi reached perfection.
• Ye Zhong and Ye Xun supported Ye Chen’s decision to break through, and Ye Xun gave him Qi Gathering Powder he had refined himself.
• Ye Chen swallowed the Qi Gathering Powder and used his Soul Power to compress the surging Dou Qi in his Dantian.
• Ye Chen condensed a slowly rotating Dou Qi Vortex, completing his breakthrough to Dou Zhe.

Ye Chen broke through to Dou Zhe, cultivated the Ye Family’s Heavenly Sun Profound Fire Art, and began refining a Fire Essence Pill under Ye Xun and Ye Zhong’s supervision. After he refined all seven ingredients with great precision, Ye Xun’s condition remained near its end, while Ye Chen’s confidence in his alchemy talent grew.

• Ye Chen formed a Dou Qi Vortex and became a Dou Zhe, then absorbed the Heavenly Sun Profound Fire Art into his mind.
• Ye Chen cultivated the method for two hours, transforming his Dou Qi into a gentle silver-white fire attribute.
• Ye Chen returned to Ye Xun and Ye Zhong and began refining a Fire Essence Pill from seven herbs and a fire attribute Magic Core.
• Ye Chen used Star Fire to refine all seven medicinal herbs over three hours, then stopped to recover from the strain.
• Ye Zhong praised the purity of Ye Chen’s Flame Grass essence, and Ye Chen reflected that his Third Star Soul granted him Soul Control.

Ye Chen successfully refined a superior-grade Fire Essence Pill, becoming a First Grade Alchemist before the age of eight. Just as Ye Xun praised him, the old ancestor died, and Ye Chen vowed to lead the Ye Family to greater strength.

• Ye Chen carefully fused the seven materials and refined them into a Fire Essence Pill.
• Ye Xun judged the pill to be superior grade and praised Ye Chen.
• Ye Xun suddenly died, and the pill fell from his hand.
• Ye Zhong summoned Ye Lan and Song Chun’er, and Song Chun’er took Ye Chen away.
• Ye Chen reflected on Ye Xun’s kindness and vowed to make the Ye Family stronger.

After the Ye Family Old Ancestor died, rival clans arrived to test the weakened Ye Family, while Ye Chen resolved to use his alchemy talent to protect his family’s standing. He entered the main hall wearing his official alchemist robe and First Grade Alchemist badge, drawing every guest’s attention.

• News of the Ye Family Old Ancestor’s death spread, and the Bai Clan and Qiu Clan sent elders to offer condolences.
• Ye Lan learned the rival clans had arrived and summoned the Second Elder to receive them.
• Ye Chen considered the Ye Family’s precarious position and the prodigies emerging among the other great families, especially Cao Ying.
• Ye Chen decided to display his alchemy aptitude to protect the Ye Family’s reputation and went to the main hall.
• Ye Chen entered the hall as Ye Zhong faced veiled insults from the Bai Clan and Qiu Clan elders, and the guests focused on Ye Chen’s First Grade Alchemist badge.

At Ye Zhong’s gathering, Ye Chen challenged Bai Wei to test his alchemy after she questioned his talent. They agreed that he would owe an apology if he failed, while she would give him a Sixth Grade Pill if he won.

• Ye Chen apologized for barging into the hall, and Ye Zhong introduced his eight-year-old grandson to the gathered alchemy Seniors.
• Mu Rong praised Ye Chen as a potential peerless genius, but Bai Wei disputed that one successful first-grade pill proved his skill.
• Ye Chen offered Bai Wei three chances to test him on any first-grade pill, wagering that he would strip off his alchemist robe and kowtow if he failed.
• Bai Wei accepted the challenge, and Ye Chen asked what he would receive if he won.
• Bai Wei offered a Sixth Grade Pill, but refused to apologize, prompting Ye Chen to mutter that the pill was not worth much.

After Ye Chen began refining the Foundation Establishment Pill at the Ye Family Old Ancestor’s funeral gathering, he revealed a mysterious Silver Flame that shocked the assembled alchemists. The onlookers reconsidered their doubts about the Ye Family’s young genius as the wager continued.

• After the three-day funeral, Ye Chen faced Bai Wei’s challenge while the remaining family representatives and Elder Mu Rong watched.
• Ye Chen read the Foundation Establishment Pill formula and judged its refinement method unnecessarily complicated.
• Ye Chen began refining the medicinal materials inside a soundproof light curtain using his Silver Flame.
• Bai Wei and the other alchemists mistook Ye Chen’s flame for a Heavenly Flame, but Mu Rong recognized that it was not one.
• Dan Leng asked Ye Zhong whether the Ye Family’s inherited Yang Fire was milky white, and Ye Zhong calmly confirmed it.

Eight-year-old Ye Chen refined a middle-grade Foundation Establishment Pill during the wager, impressing the gathered alchemists with his precise soul and fire control. Danta Elder Mu Rong declared Ye Chen the winner, while the rival families worried about the Ye Family’s future.

• Bai Wei disparaged Ye Chen’s Starfire, but Ye Chen calmly began refining the medicinal materials inside the formation.
• Ye Chen controlled the Starfire with remarkable precision, earning praise from Danta Elder Mu Rong and admiration from Dan Leng.
• Ye Chen carefully fused the medicinal liquids for the Foundation Establishment Pill and completed the pill.
• Ye Chen presented the pill to Danta Elder Mu Rong, who judged it middle grade and declared Ye Chen the winner of the wager.

Five years after defeating Bai Wei, Ye Chen had reached the peak of Dou Master and prepared to break through to Da Dou Shi. He planned to leave the Ye Clan to find a suitable Magical Beast for a Star Vein Diagram and broaden his horizons.

• Ye Zhong gave Ye Chen the Nine Profound Azure Spirit Pill that Bai Wei had wagered, but Ye Chen cared more about the memory of Ye Xun's sacrifice.
• Ye Chen spent five years cultivating, refining medicine, and absorbing Star Vein while remaining inside Ye Family Manor.
• At thirteen, Ye Chen reached Nine Star Peak Dou Master and decided his foundation was ready for a breakthrough.
• Ye Chen planned to reach Da Dou Shi, obtain a Star Vein Diagram, and travel around the Middle Continent to find a powerful Magical Beast himself.
• Ye Chen took out the Mysterious Yang Breakthrough Pill that Ye Xun had prepared for him five years earlier to guarantee his advance to Da Dou Shi.

Ye Chen absorbed a Mysterious Yang Breakthrough Pill and compressed the surging Dou Qi in his Dantian. He formed a Dou Crystal and completed his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi.

• Ye Chen guided the pill’s energy through his meridians while his Dou Qi Gauze Robe began to solidify.
• As his Dantian vortex reached its limit, Ye Chen compressed its liquid Dou Qi to prevent it from bursting.
• Ye Chen’s Dou Qi gathered into flame-patterned armor as the vortex spun faster and the energy condensed.
• A Dou Crystal formed above the remaining liquid in Ye Chen’s Dantian, marking his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi.
• Ye Chen’s new Dou Crystal stabilized, and a Milky White Flame rose around him.

After five years of seclusion, Ye Chen broke through to Dou Grandmaster and assessed the strength of his Starfire and flame-control abilities. He left his bamboo grove to visit his family and consider traveling for experience, but his reunion with Ye Xinyue ended with her looking dejected when he asked about her cultivation.

• Ye Chen reached Dou Grandmaster and found that his Starfire could help him defeat a Three-Star Dou Grandmaster, though he lacked Dou Skills and soul-attack methods.
• Ye Chen decided he needed to find his Grandpa and make a plan to travel for experience.
• Ye Chen learned that Ye Zhong had become a Seventh Grade Advanced alchemist, a rank that left the Ye Family worried about its standing in the Pill Tower.
• Ye Chen left his bamboo grove and headed to the Ye Family Patriarch's residence to visit his parents before traveling.
• Ye Chen met his half-sister Ye Xinyue, failed to recognize her at first, and asked how her cultivation had been going, leaving her dejected.

Ye Chen learned that the Yang Fire Ancient Altar had failed, threatening the Ye Family’s pill refining and worsening its decline. He promised to reach above Sixth Grade as an alchemist within three years, but then learned the Pill Tower’s assessment of the Five Great Clans was approaching and the Ye Family’s best young alchemist was not ready.

• Ye Chen met his father, Ye Lan, who revealed that the Yang Fire had disappeared from the Yang Fire Ancient Altar while Ye Zhong investigated its cause.
• Ye Lan said the Ye Family would conceal the failure and rely on its reserves for several years, and Ye Chen urged the clan to seek Sixth Grade pill formulas through its connections.
• Ye Chen promised to advance above Sixth Grade as an alchemist within three years and help ease the Ye Family’s crisis by entering the Pill Tower.
• Ye Chen realized the Yang Fire’s disappearance had been caused by an Earth Core Pearl blocking its underground fire vent, but retrieving it would require at least 1,500 Soul Value.
• Ye Lan revealed that the Pill Tower would soon assess the Five Great Clans and that Ye Qing, the Ye Family’s top young alchemist under thirty, had only just passed the Sixth Grade Initial Alchemist assessment.

Ye Chen reassured Ye Lan about the Ye Family’s looming Pill Tower assessment and presented him with a pill formula he had developed. He then visited his mother, Song Chun’er, and reunited with his little sister Xin Lan.

• Ye Lan told Ye Chen that the Ye Family was unlikely to pass the next Pill Tower assessment because its alchemists lagged behind the other Great Families.
• Ye Chen comforted Ye Lan and gave him the Nurturing Yuan Pill formula, which he had developed to strengthen and aid the cultivation of those below Dou Zhe.
• Ye Lan read the formula and praised Ye Chen’s alchemy talent.
• Ye Chen went to see Song Chun’er, who welcomed him enthusiastically and scolded him for staying away.
• Ye Chen picked up Xin Lan, and she recognized him as her brother.

Ye Chen considered how to improve his younger sister Ye Xinlan’s talent and planned to send her to Jia Nan Academy, then visited his grandfather Ye Zhong at the Yang Fire Ancient Altar. There, Ye Zhong showed him the weakening Earth Eye flame, which threatened to leave the Ye Family’s altar useless.

• Ye Chen worried that his own prominence might harm Ye Xinlan’s growth and resolved to find a way to improve her talent.
• Ye Chen planned to send Ye Xinlan to Jia Nan Academy once she became a Dou Zhe, and have her return after reaching Dou Wang.
• Song Chun'er snapped Ye Chen out of his thoughts, and he changed the subject before going to seek permission from Ye Zhong to travel.
• Ye Chen found Ye Zhong meditating at the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and asked whether he had discovered anything unusual.
• Ye Zhong opened the Earth Eye and explained that its flame was growing weaker and could eventually disappear, rendering the altar useless.