Chapter Summaries

Ice Venerable arrived at the battle between Ice River Valley and the Ye Family, but Ye Chen broke through his soul-pressure attack and revealed his strength as an Eighth Grade Alchemist. Fearing the consequences of harming Xuan Kongzi’s disciple, Ice Venerable offered the Ye Family a face-saving chance to settle the conflict.

• Ice Venerable surveyed Ice River Valley’s losses and noticed Golden Cauldron Venerable standing beside Ye Chen.
• Ice Venerable used his aura and soul pressure against Ye Chen, who destroyed the Demon God phantom with his Heaven-Splitting Sword.
• Ice Venerable realized Ye Chen was an Eighth Grade Alchemist and worried that Xuan Kongzi would retaliate if he harmed him.
• Ice Venerable offered to let the matter go if anyone from the Ye Family could withstand one move from him without being defeated.
• Heaven Frost Child inferred that Ice River Valley feared a powerful force behind the Ye Family.

Ye Zhong accepted Ice Venerable's proposal to end the battle, and Golden Cauldron Venerable faced Ice River in a one-move exchange. While their clash drew everyone's attention, a hidden attacker struck Ye Chen and tried to escape.

• Ye Zhong accepted Ice Venerable's offer, deciding not to destroy Ice River Valley.
• Golden Cauldron Venerable stepped forward to receive Ice River's attack and revealed his powerful body cultivation.
• Ice River's Black Ice Spike struck Golden Cauldron Venerable's golden cauldron, but Golden Cauldron Venerable held firm.
• A Black Mist crept close to the Ye Family camp, and a hidden attacker struck Ye Chen from behind.
• Ye Chen's Soul Defense Wall blunted the ambush, and Tyrant Blade Venerable and the Cao Family's Two Star Dou Zun attacked the assailant.
• The attacker failed to kill Ye Chen and fled into the black fog.

After a Hall of Souls Protector ambushed Ye Chen, Tyrant Blade Venerable and another Dou Zun struck the attacker, but he escaped through a Spatial Rift. Ye Chen accused Ice River Valley of colluding with the Hall of Souls, and Bing He ended the confrontation by agreeing to withdraw and compensate the Ye Family.

• Tyrant Blade Venerable and another Dou Zun attacked the figure in the Black Mist as he fled through a Spatial Rift, injuring him but failing to stop his escape.
• Ye Chen recognized the ambusher's Soul Locking Chain as a method of the Hall of Souls, and Ye Zhong hurried to check on him.
• Ye Chen told Ye Zhong that the Hall of Souls had attacked him, then accused Bing He of arranging the ambush with them.
• Bing He denied any connection to the Hall of Souls as the Ye Family and Five Great Clans eyed Ice River Valley with suspicion.
• Ye Chen demanded an explanation and threatened consequences from the Pill Tower, so Bing He agreed that Ice River Valley would stop interfering with the Poisonous Body of Calamity and compensate the Ye Family.

Protector Wu escaped after Ye Chen’s attack and hurried back to the Yin Mo Mountain Range branch of the Hall of Souls to report Ye Chen’s Spirit Realm soul. Meanwhile, the Ye Family and Ice River Valley ended their conflict and began assessing the heavy costs of the battle.

• Protector Wu recalled his failed ambush on Ye Chen and decided to report the Spirit Realm soul to the Venerable Elder in the Yin Mo Mountain Range branch.
• Protector Wu spent five days returning to the Yin Mo Mountain Range, entered its black-mist-covered valley, and headed for the Hall Master's location.
• Ice Venerable yielded to the Ye Family and the Pill Tower, ending the conflict between the Ye Family and Ice River Valley.
• Ice River Valley Disciples gathered corpses and tended to the wounded while the valley elders considered what benefits to offer the Ye Family.
• The Second Elder reported that the Ye Family had spent one hundred and thirty-two Seventh Grade Pills and more than five hundred Sixth Grade Pills, consuming nearly half of its high-grade pill reserves.

Ye Chen investigated the Earth Eye beneath the Ye Family’s Yang Fire Ancient Altar and used his strengthened Spirit Realm Soul Power to reach the Earth Core Pearl. He left his soul power inside the scorching liquid, protected by gray mist, as he began trying to retrieve it.

• Ye Zhong confirmed that news of Soul Hall’s appearance had reached Sacred Pill City and that President Xuan Kong had dispatched experts to Ye City.
• Ye Chen planned to build a Space Tunnel connecting the Ye Family to Misty Valley so qualified disciples could cultivate there in seclusion.
• Ye Chen and Ye Zhong went to address the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, whose lost flames had hindered the Ye Family’s cultivation and alchemy.
• Ye Chen explained that something beneath the Earth Eye was blocking the Earth Core Fire and that his newly strengthened soul might be able to remove it.
• Ye Chen sent his Soul Power into the Earth Eye, waited for the Earth Core Pearl’s surrounding liquid to dim, and plunged into it under the protection of gray mist.

Ye Chen retrieved the Earth Core Pearl from the Earth Eye and sealed it before deciding to refine it into an Earth Core Thunder Pearl. He stayed in Misty Mountain Valley rather than returning to the Pill Tower immediately, then arranged for Qin Yan to cultivate at the Yang Fire Ancient Altar in three days.

• Ye Chen escaped the Earth Eye with the Earth Core Pearl, and the stone tablet and altar beams suppressed the violent energy below.
• Ye Chen discovered that the Earth Core Pearl attracted Fire Attribute Energy and planned to refine it into an Earth Core Thunder Pearl using Xuan Kongzi's alchemy insights.
• Ye Zhong urged Ye Chen to return to the Pill Tower and warned him about the Soul Hall, but Ye Chen chose to remain in Misty Mountain Valley for now.
• Ye Chen told Qin Yan that he could enter the Yang Fire Ancient Altar to cultivate in three days, and Qin Yan thanked him.

Ye Chen arranged for Qin Yan to break through to Dou Venerate in exchange for guarding the Ye Family for five years, then recruited experts and prepared medicinal materials. The Xuan Yin Two Elders arrived from the Pill Tower to address the Soul Hall threat and offered to protect him if he stayed in Ye City.

• Ye Chen explained that the Yang Fire Ancient Altar could not help Qin Yan break through quickly, then offered to achieve the breakthrough within a year if Qin Yan guarded the Ye Family for five years; Qin Yan agreed.
• Ye Chen invited several High-level Dou Ancestors in Ye City to join the Ye Family, bringing in seven Retainer experts, including Lin Xiu.
• Ye Chen gave Ye Zhong a list of medicinal materials for Seventh Grade Peak pills to help him practice toward refining Rank Eight pills.
• The Xuan Yin Two Elders arrived from the Pill Tower and told Ye Chen that Xuan Kongzi wanted him to return there to cultivate, though they would protect him if he chose to stay.

Ye Chen prepared to refine the seventh-grade peak Profound Heaven Fire Fusion Pill before a crowd at the Ye Family’s central square. With Xuan Yin Two Elders’ spatial protections in place, he began the complex refinement, leaving the spectators watching as he prepared more than a hundred ingredients.

• Xuan Yin Two Elders completed spatial protections around the Stone Platform to contain the Pill Lightning expected from Ye Chen’s high-grade pill.
• Ye Family members and onlookers gathered to watch Ye Chen refine, while Ye Yun told Ye Guan that Ye Chen’s Spirit Realm Soul Power made reaching the eighth grade seem easy.
• Ye Chen summoned the Star Chen Cauldron, drawing down streams of starlight that competed with the sun.
• Ye Chen ignited a Silver Flame in the cauldron and summoned the many Medicinal Materials needed for the Profound Heaven Fire Fusion Pill.
• Ye Chen reviewed the pill’s demanding refinement method and focused on handling its roughly one hundred and one ingredients carefully.

Ye Chen refined a powerful pill for Qin Yan while the Ye Family and other observers watched. After Ye Zhong recognized Ye Chen had entered the Pill Soul Realm, dark clouds and lightning gathered overhead as the pill’s formation neared its next stage.

• Ye Chen refined more than a hundred medicinal materials in the cauldron over ten days, combining them into seven-colored liquid.
• Ye Chen spent another five days carefully fusing the medicinal powers while Qin Yan anxiously awaited the pill that could help him break through to Dou Zun.
• Ye Zhong noticed Ye Chen had entered the Pill Soul Realm and explained that the state made the refinement certain to succeed.
• Dark clouds gathered above the Stone Platform, with silver lightning moving through them.

Ye Chen refined a Profound Heaven Fire Fusion Pill that drew down silver Pill Lightning, leading the onlookers to judge it a Seventh Grade Peak pill just short of Rank Eight. He faced the first lightning strike himself and endured it with his body after weakening it with six Fire Dragons.

• Ye Zhong explained that the Pill Lightning suggested Ye Chen's pill had reached Seventh Grade Peak, while its crimson glow fell short of forming Two Colored Pill Lightning.
• Ye Chen sensed that the Profound Heaven Fire Fusion Pill could not reach Rank Eight without risking his own essence blood and soul.
• Song Chun'er worried whether Ye Chen could withstand the Pill Lightning, but Xuan Lao reassured her that the gathered experts could protect him.
• A silver lightning bolt struck toward the Crimson Pill, and Ye Chen summoned six Fire Dragons to weaken its force.
• Ye Chen endured the remaining lightning across his body, astonishing Qin Yan and the Ye Family members.

Ye Chen endured the Pill Lightning by repeatedly sending Fire Dragons against it, then used the completed Crimson Pill and the thunder’s energy as an opportunity to break through. After the storm passed, he began absorbing Heaven and Earth Power as the onlookers realized he was advancing beyond One-Star Dou Zong.

• Ye Chen fought off the Pill Lightning with a continuous stream of Fire Dragons while the elders debated how he could withstand the thunder.
• Yin Lao explained that the Fire Dragons’ numbers offset the relatively limited force of each bolt, while Ye Chen’s Star Soul power steadily dwindled.
• Ye Chen held the Crimson Pill in his palm and relied on the Pill Lightning to create an opportunity to advance his Dou Qi realm.
• After nearly half an hour, the thunderclouds exhausted their power and dispersed, but Ye Chen remained in the sky.
• Ye Chen formed a hand seal and drew in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Power as silver starlight enveloped him.
• The onlookers recognized that Ye Chen was breaking through, and Yin Lao and Xuan Lao suspected his cultivation method was at least Heavenly Rank.

Ye Chen advanced to Two-Star Dou Zong, prepared a mission for Lin Xiu in the Black-Corner Region, and set out with allies to open a Space Tunnel to Misty Valley. After Ye Chen left, a shadowy figure killed the youth who had revealed his departure.

• Ye Chen completed his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Zong and arranged to open a Space Tunnel to Misty Valley in three days.
• Ye Chen gave Lin Xiu pills to exchange with Demon Flame Valley for the Heavenly Demon Puppet method and with the Black Emperor Sect for a dried Magical Beast corpse.
• Three days later, Ye Chen, the Xuan Yin Two Elders, and Golden Cauldron Venerable boarded the Soaring Ship for Misty Valley.
• A shadowy figure learned that Ye Chen had left Ye City and killed the youth who had delivered the news, despite promising him a cultivation method.

Ye Chen and his companions were ambushed by the Soul Hall inside the Ye Family's Space Tunnel, where Star Plucking Old Ghost led five Dou Venerates against them. As Xuan Lao prepared to send Ye Chen away, Star Plucking Old Ghost launched a feint aimed at the Soaring Ship.

• A rupture in the Space Tunnel triggered a Space Storm, and Ye Chen suspected someone had caused it deliberately.
• Soul Hall experts attacked through the breach, and Xuan Lao and the Xuan Yin Two Elders recognized Star Plucking Old Ghost among them.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost revealed four more Dou Venerates, leaving Ye Chen's group outnumbered in the dangerous Space Tunnel.
• Xuan Lao secretly planned to tear open space and send Ye Chen back to the Pill Tower while the others held off the Soul Hall.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost sent black chains toward Ye Chen, but Golden Cauldron Venerable shielded him as the attack's real target proved to be the Soaring Ship.

Xuan Lao and Yin Lao sacrificed the Soaring Ship and its Soaring Snake to open a Spatial Rift, letting Ye Chen escape the Soul Hall’s ambush. Ye Chen landed in an unfamiliar mountain realm, hid and cultivated in a cave, where a mysterious Glow Snake approached without him noticing.

• Star Plucking Old Ghost destroyed the Soaring Ship and Soaring Snake, but Xuan Lao opened a Spatial Rift and Yin Lao threw Ye Chen through it.
• Golden Cauldron Venerable blocked Star Plucking Old Ghost, allowing Ye Chen to escape as the Soul Hall Venerables attacked Xuan Lao and the others.
• Ye Chen emerged into a vast mountain realm, sensed many powerful Demonic Beasts, and suspected he might be near the Beast Region.
• Ye Chen concealed his aura, traveled a hundred li, and settled in a mountain cave to cultivate the Soul Condensation Technique.
• A Glow Snake appeared beside the cultivating Ye Chen and landed on his legs without him sensing it.

Ye Chen discovered a large piece of Earth Core Jade Marrow beneath the ground and suspected it contained the rare Earth Core Soul Marrow that could temper his soul. After surviving the poisonous bite of the strange little snake, he used his Eye of Deception Piercing to reveal a hollow inside the jade, where the snake swam in a pool of white liquid.

• Ye Chen spotted a strange little snake burrowing into the ground and dug downward after sensing Soul Power below.
• Ye Chen uncovered a large piece of Earth Core Jade Marrow and recalled that it could contain the soul-tempering Earth Core Soul Marrow.
• The little snake sprang from the jade and bit Ye Chen's Soul Shield, poisoning his soul with two black strands.
• Ye Chen sealed the little snake inside the Earth Core Jade Marrow and spent several days using the Soul Condensation Technique to purge the poison.
• Ye Chen used his Eye of Deception Piercing and saw a hollow filled with viscous white liquid inside the jade, with the little snake swimming freely within it.

Ye Chen explored the fossilized body of a giant snake and found a Heavenly Grade Snake Clan cultivation method carved into a jade-like spinal bone. As the Bone Path began to collapse, he raced to escape with the treasure.

• Ye Chen sealed the Earth Core Jade Marrow, jumped into the passage beneath it, and discovered that the path ran through a giant snake’s fossilized body.
• Ye Chen decided to search the remains and found a hidden, jade-like section of spinal bone beneath the Bone Path.
• Ye Chen read the Nine Revolutions Heaven Snake Treasure Record from the Jade Bone and realized Qing Lin could cultivate the Heavenly Grade method.
• The Bone Path began to collapse, and Ye Chen rushed to escape.

Ye Chen emerged in the Vast Mountain Range and forced the Azure Wolf King to tell him where he was and where the nearest human city lay. After learning Mol Lan City was to the south, Ye Chen left the wolf with a Sixth Grade Pill and headed out, while the Azure Wolf King planned to flee north.

• Ye Chen emerged from a collapsing mountain and used his pressure to subdue the nearby Magical Beasts, killing several Fifth-Order Magical Beasts with a glance.
• Ye Chen found the Azure Wolf King hiding in his den and whipped him when he delayed answering questions.
• The Azure Wolf King told Ye Chen that they were in the Vast Mountain Range, southwest of the Central State Central Region, and that Mol Lan City lay a thousand li south.
• Ye Chen considered the nearby powers, blamed Ice River Valley for his troubles with Soul Hall, and resolved to make Bing He pay when he returned.
• Ye Chen gave the Azure Wolf King a Sixth Grade Pill as compensation and departed, while the wolf ate the pill and decided to flee north.

After the Hall of Souls ambushed Ye Chen and left him missing, the Pill Tower’s elders divided their efforts to protect the Ye Family and search for him. Xuan Kongzi learned what had happened and vowed to retaliate against the Hall of Souls.

• A battle between the Pill Tower and the Hall of Souls shattered the sky near Phoenix Forest City, and Star Plucking Old Ghost escaped after the Xuan Yin Two Elders defeated him.
• Xuan Lao sent Golden Cauldron Venerable to Ye City to inform the Ye Family and protect them while they waited for news of Ye Chen.
• Xuan Lao ordered Yin Lao to report everything to Xuan Kongzi and direct a search for Ye Chen in the western and southern Central Region, while he headed southwest.
• Several days later, Xuan Kongzi learned that the Hall of Souls had ambushed Ye Chen in the Pill Region and made him go missing.
• Xuan Kongzi recalled the Pill Tower’s past defeat by the Hall of Souls Hall Master and resolved to punish the Hall of Souls for breaking their unspoken truce.

Ye Chen prepared to travel toward the Pill Tower while improving his combat strength, unaware that Yin Wu was hunting Hall of Souls members nearby. When Wu Jiu arrived to save a surviving Protector, he attacked Yin Wu and threatened Sound Valley.

• Ye Chen disguised himself in Mol Lan City, cultivated the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions of the Thunder God, and chose a nearby Space Wormhole leading to the Pill Tower.
• Yin Wu captured a Hall of Souls Protector on Sound Valley territory after killing other Hall of Souls members.
• Yin Wu tried to kill the captured Protector, but Wu Jiu appeared and destroyed her ribbon with a black chain.
• The rescued Protector told Wu Jiu that Yin Wu had killed two Protectors and five Soul Envoys, and Wu Jiu launched an attack against her.

Yin Wu fought Protector Wu Jiu and used the Soul Capturing Zither Melody to destroy his Hundred Soul Lock Heaven Python. Wu Jiu prepared another soul-powered attack, while Yin Wu condemned the Soul Hall for sacrificing living souls.

• Yin Wu dodged Wu Jiu's Soul Locking Chains and used golden Dou Qi threads to deflect his attacks.
• Yin Wu formed golden zither strings and began playing the Soul Capturing Zither Melody, alarming Wu Jiu.
• Wu Jiu summoned countless chains and black shadows to form the Hundred Soul Lock Heaven Python and sent it at Yin Wu.
• Yin Wu's zither summoned a golden Vajra Demon God, which seized the python and tore it apart.
• Wu Jiu gathered more black shadows to empower his chains, and Yin Wu denounced the Soul Hall for extracting and sacrificing souls.